voyager VS compose-samples

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

The official documentation provides a comprehensive guide on the basics of Jetpack Compose, components, layouts, theming, and more advanced topics.

Apparently Jetpack Compose is an Android copy of SwiftUI?

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose

Only two HN threads with comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=jetpack+compose

If you want to take a look at code, we have the Jetnews sample app that support different screen sizes. And Jetcaster also implements features such as table top mode.

check this out : https://github.com/android/compose-samples/tree/main/Crane

So I would say that instead if learning everything from Android SDK, you should just set a goal to create some app. Learn about Activities, their lifecycle, layouts (or Compose if you want to be more up to date). Try to implement your app based on this. Then improve your app using Fragments and their lifecycle. If you truly want to understand Views, which are essentially the building blocks of Android UI then I would recommend implementing your own custom View, which will have completely custom look - it is cool thing to try and you will learn how it all works inside.

The compose samples by Google are a good reference to look into: https://github.com/android/compose-samples

Basic understanding of Jetpack Compose.

The compose-samples repo has a comprehensive list of samples ranging from low to complex projects which might be worth a look.

For instance, there is a link to this repository, that contains all sorts of samples, that are up to date and ready to use. That's cutting edge, which is a recommended start.