voyager VS compose-multiplatform

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

So, to add file associations, we need to be able to pass both the .properties file and the --file-associations option. At the time of writing this article, the org.jetbrains.compose plugin doesn't provide such a mechanism. There is an open issue on GitHub that describes a possible workaround, which, unfortunately seems to not work on macOS.

JetBrains has a simplified example of a general-purpose Compose text viewer here: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/ui/editor/Editor.kt


Compose for desktop has a scrollbar component available. You probably can't use that directly on Android, but you could probably steal most of its code.

My company uses https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform to make a desktop app in Kotlin. It's amazing and fantastic. It's basically as mature as using Kotlin in an Android app.

Kamel is an asynchronous media loading library for Compose Multiplatform.

Kotlin Compose Multiplatform is the way to do Desktop apps. https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform

As for missing controls, a common one is a grid. They have built in grids, but again they are built for Android and don't make any sense in a desktop app. There is no simple way to create an Excel-like Data Grid like you might see in Windows Forms, although it can be done. https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/issues/344.