How the developer community is shaping Jetpack Compose
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Jetpack Compose research reports concrete changes: an alpha released preview; in‑person usability sessions and a one-week homework study that evolves into three‑to‑four week diary studies; a rework of layout APIs so padding becomes composable modifiers and then modifiers as Kotlin extension methods to improve autocompletion; preview tooling that updates from Kotlin functions and can deploy a preview directly to device; issues found include confusing plus operator semantics, ordering sensitivity, and slow compiler-driven preview updates.
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