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Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812160
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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 7. Chapter 5: Managing the State of Your Composable Functions 8. Chapter 6: Putting Pieces Together 9. Chapter 7: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices 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: Conclusion and Next Steps 15. 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.

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

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