[discussion] jetpack compose

[jrpie]

Jetpack Compose is promoted as the new toolkit for writing Android apps.

@wassupluke is very eager to use it (see the comments here) but I have some doubts.

Completely migrating to compose is a lot of work (I don't have time for that).

This issue is created for a general discussion about compose, feel free to share your opinions.

[wassupluke]

I have yet to find the time to sit down, fork the repo, and mess around with migrating to jetpack compose. But from what I've been trying to teach myself about it from the android device page it should shrink the lines of code to maintain and would provide the dynamic colors from #31 without hitting color display issues and might better handle layout on any size display like brought up in #83 (at least it'd do it with less lines of code)

[jrpie]

If you are willing to put in the effort, I'm interested to see what the result of that looks like. (However I'm not so conviced of compose that I'd definitely merge such a migration)

[jrpie]

Perhaps starting with some isolated component would be a good idea to quickly see how this turns out.
AlertDialogs are perhaps a good starting point.

I'd be most interested in how a replacement of the PreferenceFragementCompat would look like