Jetpack Compose Reference Overview

Jetpack Compose is a group of Kotlin libraries that combined let you build apps using the Compose mental model.

This section contains an index of all Jetpack Compose libraries in each group.

Design Systems
    └─> Foundation
        └─> Animation
            └─> UI
                └─> Runtime

Compose Design Systems

UI components that your end users interact with to use your apps. such as cards, buttons and bottom sheets. Also brings theming functionality.

Material 3 Compose

• Material 3 Compose – Implementation of Material Design 3 for Compose.
• Material 3 Adaptive – Components that adapt to the device screen size.
• Material 3 Window Size Class – Window size class utilities.

Depends on Compose Foundation

Material Compose

• Material Compose – Implementation of Material Design 2 for Compose.
• Material Ripple – Material's ripple effect as a Compose Indication.

Depends on Compose Foundation

Compose Foundation

Foundational components and modifiers that let you build design systems.

• Compose Foundation – Provides essential components, such as lazy lists, pagers, and clickables, to build the foundation of your app's UI.
• Compose Foundation Layout – Offers a set of layout components and modifiers to help you arrange and position your UI elements in a flexible and efficient way.

Depends on Compose Animation

Compose Animation

Anything about animations. Bring in composable functions such as

• Animation – APIs for definiting animation specs.
• Animation Core – animateXAs() APIs for interpotating values as State objects.
• Animation Graphics – APIs for loading Animated Vectors.

Depends on Compose UI

Compose UI

• Compose UI – Dialogs, Popups, alpha modifiers.
• Compose UI Geometry – Rect, Offsets, Sizes. Stuff like that.
• Compose UI Graphics – Colors, Brush, Paint related APIs.
• Compose UI Text – APIs for dealing with text and fonts.
• Compose UI Test – Testing APIs.

Depends on Compose Runtime

Compose Runtime

The lowest layer of Compose. Here you will find core concepts like state management, side effects

• Compose Runtime – APIs for state management and effects.
• Compose Runtime Saveable – Save your State across configuration changes.
• Compose Runtime Annotation – Communicate richer information to the Compose compiler.

Other Compose Frameworks

Wear Compose

Build Wear OS apps using Compose

• Compose Wear Foundation – Wear version of Foundation.
• Compose Wear Material3 – Material 3 implementation for Wear.
• Compose Wear Material – Material 2 implementation for Wear.
• Compose Wear Navigation – Navigation library for Wear Compose.

Android TV

• Compose TV Foundation – Foundation components for Android TV.
• Compose TV Material – Material Design components for Android TV.

Jetpack Glance

A framework built on top of Compose Runtime for building interfaces using Compose.

• Glance – Foundational components such as Box, Image and clickable.
• Glance App Widget – Build Android widgets using Compose
• Glance Wear Tiles – Build tiles for wearables using Compose