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Jetpack Compose Basics

What is Jetpack Compose?

Jetpack Compose is a modern toolkit for building a Native UI in Android. It simplifies and makes easy UI development on Android. Compose is a powerful tool for building native UI and Jetpack Compose uses the Kotlin APIs. You can create a UI very easily and quickly.

Why Jetpack Compose?

Concise and Idiomatic Kotlin

Built with the benefits that Kotlin brings

Declarative

Fully declarative for defining UI components

Compatible

Compatible with existing views

Enable Beautiful Apps

Designed with Material Design

100% Kotlin

written in Kotlin programming language

Accelerate Development

writing less code and using tools

One codebase

No need to write XML anymore.

Less code

With less code, you can achieve more.

Composable Function

In Jetpack Compose, Composable functions are used for defining all the UI elements of your app programmatically. So, you need not create an XML file for your app screen design. You just need to make a composable function just by using the @Composable annotation to the function name. The basic syntax of a Composable function is as below:-

@Composable fun UiComponent() {     // Written code for your UI element }

UI Layouts

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