Project Sparkles: How Compose is Changing Android Studio
summary
Project Sparkles migrates key Android Studio UI to Compose for Desktop using the Juul component library, shipping task-based profilers in Koala 2 (built with Compose, zero Compose bugs reported, only polish issues) and a rebuilt add device dialog in Ladybug 2 canaries; a full rewrite of the Gemini chat UI (codename Mircat) adds streaming message animations and multimodal image attachments; a basic markdown renderer exists but tables/images/scroll sync remain unimplemented; Compose interops with Swing so rewrites are gradual, cutting feature iteration from weeks to days.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Welcome to Project Sparkles
- 1:49Android Studio adopting Compose now
- 3:15Juul’s role in modernization
- 6:09Task-based profilers
- 7:35New add device dialogue
- 9:21Building Compose components
- 10:23Gemini chat UI redesign
- 15:17Markdown preview challenges
- 19:07Future Compose plans
- 21:51Micro-interactions in Compose
- 24:17Motion design in Compose
- 26:24Cohesion in Android tools
- 28:30Studio UX future ideas
- 30:20Call to action
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