Decompose VS simple-stack-compose-integration

I use Decompose, although I also have a kmp project which that supports. I find the compose extensions providing a very easy API when integrating with compose.

For one of our apps we used https://arkivanov.github.io/Decompose/ for navigation. It is mentioned in the Compose Multiplatform repo, but we found it pretty obscure to use and it has some confusing concepts built in.

View model is Googles recommended approach, but there are other approaches out their you can use like decompose

When you are building your app in KMM, sometimes you need to pack some libraries along with project files in the shared module. For example if you are using Decompose you need to access it's Value class in Swift.

I don't have much experience with conductor, so I'm curious what your concerns about lifecycle is lacking compared to fragments? But if your team already knows that framework I might just stick with views over fragments. I see there is a compose integration if you do ever plan on picking that up with conductor. Otherwise compose makes fragments obsolete and your team already knows conductor. I do agree the navigation story in compose is not mature especially after jetpack compose navigation. But there are other 3rd party libraries like compose destinations or decompose, but would be nice to see something better 1st party.

I personally like decompose for its testability, clear separation of concerns, and apis for compose animations. Plus it's multiplatform so you can use it for other kmp targets.

Full discretion, all my new apps are built using mvi with MVIKotlin and decompose for the compose extensions for navigation animations. A sample project I have built with that architecture can be found here.

Check out Decompose, it's multiplatform - https://github.com/arkivanov/Decompose

Decompose

Yup, that's why we're working on https://github.com/Zhuinden/simple-stack-compose-integration/ to make it as simple as backstack.goTo(SomeScreenKey(arg1, arg2)) instead of this navController.navigateTo("some/screen&arg1=${UrlEncoder.encode(arg1.toBase64())} stuff. If you are working on an Android app that will always be on Android-only, why would you inherit limitations from Kotlin Multi-platform?

We have https://github.com/Zhuinden/simple-stack-compose-integration/ but the fact that I'd normally prefer to use fragments kinda holds it back

Simple-Stack-Compose https://github.com/Zhuinden/simple-stack-compose-integration

However, it's worth noting that thanks to a guy named @matejdro we are working on a pure-Compose version, in which setup has been reduced to

And ,yes, although not being made for Compose, also Simple stack :)

i'd love to recommend simple-stack-compose-integration but i never wrote this missing link

Using any of the 5 prominent community alternatives is a better approach (even though most people hoping to use the docs as if it was like, written for stable code, will muck around with their apps crashing if the user inputs a & symbol). I have this thing but I'd consider taking a look at https://github.com/adrielcafe/voyager or maybe https://github.com/olshevski/compose-navigation-reimagined

If you're deadset on full compose navigation I'd check out Zhuinden`s simple-stack-compose-integration

I'm almost tempted to use multiple ComposeViews, but I'm definitely not using 1 ComposeView N composables any time soon, even though technically I have the code to support it.