voyager VS ViewPropertyObjectAnimator

KMP use cases increasing, developers migrating or creating your projects to KMP, no routing system or navigation available to KMP (Except Voyager), that was the opportunity to create one.

If I were to start a project right now, I'd use https://github.com/adrielcafe/voyager although, it doesn't support Web Canvas or iOS yet I don't think.

Voyager has some bugs (apparently SavedStateHandle doesn't work and the PR is open since Nov 24), Appyx is nice but I hear it's laggy (but honestly, everything in Compose is laggy all the time, so if you use Compose, that's pretty standard tbh), I don't know enough about Navigation-Reimagined to tell you, Compose-Destinations is a codegenerator over Navigation-Compose so you drag in Accompanist-Navigation to have basic screen transitions which is pre-alpha tech.

Voyager

https://github.com/adrielcafe/voyager/issues/42 open since January

Yes, I've checked (it doesn't). I've also read AndroidScreenLifecycleOwner's source code, and I don't see a way for it to ever go to the ON_PAUSE state.

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

I've been using https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator and it's amazing

you just use https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator for everything, and if you need shared element transtiions you cry (then again, it's not like Compost can do that at all, so)

Animations with views were much easier, you just had to use this lib https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator and animator sets made it trivial. If you needed fancy crossfades then TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(container) and that's it.

Honestly, they're pretty even in that regard. Whether you use XML or Compose in "simple apps" is up to you. Some things are easier in Compose, and some things are just stupid tricky. Animations in Compose are the worst imo, with ViewPropertyObjectAnimator they used to be trivial for XML layouts.

This is probably just my experience, but with Compose I have to muck around with LaunchedEffects and manual interpolation, while with XML views I could just use https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator and AnimatorSet().playTogether().

That, and animations with https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator were much easier than linear interpolating in a LaunchedEffect, and shadow support is basically non-existent (Modifier.shadow() doesn't work as you expect, even android:elevation was better).

I like this library https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator

I don't know how to write animations without ViewPropertyObjectAnimator https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator

Really? I just used https://github.com/blipinsk/ViewPropertyObjectAnimator + AnimatorSet for everything and it always just worked