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Jetpack Compose

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, Jetpack Compose means: Google's modern declarative toolkit for building Android user interfaces in Kotlin, using composable functions instead of XML layouts.

In Turkish: Jetpack Compose

How it is used

Usually just called Compose. It became stable in 2021 and is now Google's recommended way to build Android UI. Developers talk about composables, recomposition, state hoisting and Material 3 components.

Example sentences

  1. We migrated the settings screen from XML to Jetpack Compose.

  2. In Jetpack Compose, unnecessary recompositions can make a list stutter.

Common collocations

  • composable function
  • recomposition
  • Compose UI
  • migrate to Compose
  • KotlinA modern programming language created by JetBrains that Google recommends as the main language for Android development; it works alongside Java code.
  • SwiftUIApple's declarative framework, introduced in 2019, for building user interfaces in Swift by describing what the screen should show for each state.
  • AndroidGoogle's mobile operating system, used by many phone makers such as Samsung, Xiaomi and Google itself. Its apps are mainly written in Kotlin or Java.
  • componentA reusable, self-contained piece of a user interface, such as a button, modal or product card, with its own markup, styles and logic.

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