Google's powerful Android UI toolkit dominates Github, here's a guide to getting started

In 2019, Google publicly released a non-bundled toolkit at the I/O conference - Jetpack Compose, a modern toolkit for building native Android UI. The layout can be completed with only a small amount of code, and it can be written directly in Kotlin.

The Jetpack Compose toolkit is built around composable functions. These functions allow you to define the UI of your app by describing the shape of your app and the data it depends on, without having to worry about the specific construction process of the UI.

Recently, there is a project on Github that has been at the top of the list for many days. This project contains a set of separate Android Studio projects that can help you better learn Compose.

Currently, compose-samples has 2.7K stars on Github and 400 branches (Github address: https://github.com/android/compose-samples)

If you want to try out these sample apps, use the latest Canary version of Android Studio 4.2. Let's take a look at the examples:

Jetnews

This is a blog post viewer of medium complexity

Jetchat

This is a sample chat application with simple complexity, simple theme design, UI testing, animations, etc.

Jetsurvey

This is a survey app that demonstrates text input, validation, and UI state management in Compose at a simple level of complexity.

Jetsnack

This is a snack ordering app built with Compose. It is of medium complexity, involving system design, layout customization, etc.

Jetcaster

This is a podcast app with a fully functional Redux-style architecture and showcases dynamic theming.

In addition to the above application examples, there are also special applications such as Crane (travel application), Rally (financial application), Owl, etc. If you are interested in Compose, you must check out this project.