Android · Jul 2, 2026 · 1 min read
Jetpack Compose, one year in
A year of shipping Compose in production leaves you with opinions. Most of them are about state, not UI.1 The declarative model is the easy sell; the hard part is deciding who owns what, and when.
Placeholder for the retrospective. The real one has code and regrets.
Footnotes
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State ownership — who holds it, who mutates it, and when it’s hoisted — is where most Compose bugs actually live. ↩