The inside story of Jetpack Compose
Summary
Hosts Tor Norby, Romain Guy, Chad Haas, and Clara Vallari celebrate Compose’s fifth anniversary by recounting its origins from the "Great Widget Migration" project. They discuss merging the R4A and Crane initiatives, learning from Flutter’s UX, and the controversial shift to a Kotlin-based, declarative API. The episode highlights how the team navigated technical challenges, naming debates, and tooling constraints to deliver Compose 1.0.
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