Jetpack Compose Alpha is released

They look and feel quite similar. Both use a declarative approach to UI development. I think there are fundamental changes under the hood, though. For example, SwiftUI uses structs(value types) to build views but Kotlin only has classes which are reference types.

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Post by matt2000 » Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

butz wrote: post #3

I presume apps built with Jetpack Compose will be smaller than ones built with Flutter?

I would guess so, although the size overhead for an optimized Flutter release build is now down around ~4MB, so not a determining factor for most use cases anyway.

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Post by XzAeRosho » Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 9:00 PM UTC

butz wrote: post #3

I presume apps built with Jetpack Compose will be smaller than ones built with Flutter?

I'm also curious about what will happen with Flutter in the long term.

I mean, Flutter is an SDK, and the other is an UI toolkit, but I don't see how Flutter UI will remain relevant, specially since Jetpack might take over.

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Post by roneythomas6 » Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

XzAeRosho wrote: post #8

butz wrote: post #3

I presume apps built with Jetpack Compose will be smaller than ones built with Flutter?

I'm also curious about what will happen with Flutter in the long term. I mean, Flutter is an SDK, and the other is an UI toolkit, but I don't see how Flutter UI will remain relevant, specially since Jetpack might take over.

But Flutter works on iOS, Android and now on web.

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Post by KptMarchewa » Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

XzAeRosho wrote: post #8

butz wrote: post #3

I presume apps built with Jetpack Compose will be smaller than ones built with Flutter?

I'm also curious about what will happen with Flutter in the long term. I mean, Flutter is an SDK, and the other is an UI toolkit, but I don't see how Flutter UI will remain relevant, specially since Jetpack might take over.

It's one of the giant Google A/B tests.