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Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

You're reading from   Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose Bring declarative and native UI to life quickly and easily on Android using Jetpack Compose and Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634255
Length 278 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Fundamentals of Jetpack Compose
2. Chapter 1: Building Your First Compose App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding the Declarative Paradigm 4. Chapter 3: Exploring the Key Principles of Compose 5. Part 2: Building User Interfaces
6. Chapter 4: Laying Out UI Elements in Compose 7. Chapter 5: Managing State of Your Composable Functions 8. Chapter 6: Building a Real-World App 9. Chapter 7: Exploring App Architecture 10. Part 3: Advanced Topics
11. Chapter 8: Working with Animations 12. Chapter 9: Exploring Interoperability APIs 13. Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging Compose Apps 14. Chapter 11: Developing for Different Form Factors 15. Chapter 12: Bringing Your Compose UI to Different Platforms 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Embedding composables in View hierarchies

As you have seen, integrating Views in composable functions is simple and straightforward using AndroidView() and AndroidViewBinding(). But what about the other way round? Often, you may not want to rewrite an existing (View-based) app from scratch but migrate it to Jetpack Compose gradually, replacing View hierarchies with composable functions step by step. Depending on the complexity of the activity, it may make sense to start with small composables that reflect portions of the UI and incorporate them into the remaining layout.

The androidx.compose.ui.platform.ComposeView view makes composables available inside classic layouts. The class extends AbstractComposeView, which has ViewGroup as its parent. Once the layout that includes it has been inflated, you can configure the ComposeView as follows:

binding.composeView.run {
  setViewCompositionStrategy(
      ViewCompositionStrategy.DisposeOnDetachedFromWindow...
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