Compose for Desktop

Starting today, Compose Multiplatform 1.2 is available for you to use! This latest version of the declarative UI framework for Kotlin brings compatibility with the latest Kotlin version and introduces several powerful features for the desktop target. Specifically, here are the highlights: The newly added ProGuard support allows you to minify and obfuscate your application before shipping.Focus management is being improved, resulting in better keyboard navigation through form elements.A reworked API for handling mouse and keyboard input makes it more convenient to implement actions that reac

Victor Kropp, the Team Lead for the Toolbox team at JetBrains, shares the story of adopting Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform on desktop. The JetBrains Toolbox App is the single entry point for developing using JetBrains IDEs. It serves as a control panel for tools and projects, and makes installing and updating JetBrains IDEs quick and easy. Originally started in 2015 as a hackathon project, the application now serves one million monthly active users, and helps them be more productive with their JetBrains products. Read on to understand how the Toolbox team moved their application from

Compose Multiplatform by JetBrains, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached version 1.0, which makes it ready for production use! Here are a few highlights that we hope will make you as excited about the release of this framework as we are: On desktop, you can now create Kotlin apps with beautiful user interfaces quickly and efficiently.On the web, you can now build production-quality dynamic web experiences using Compose for Web's stable DOM API with full interoperability with all browser APIs. Support for Material UI widgets will be available in a future release.Overall, shar

Compose Multiplatform, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached Beta. This brings Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web another step closer to their stable release later this year. Here are the highlights: We are starting to stabilize APIs in preparation for the 1.0 release, and we’re explicitly marking experimental interfaces.Compose Multiplatform now references Android artifacts published by Google eliminating compatibility issues.Compose for Desktop has received multiple improvements: Improved stability on problematic hardware/drivers via smart fallback to software renderin

Today’s release marks another step in our grand unified theory of UI development with Kotlin! We have a lot of news to talk about for our multiplatform UI efforts, including Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web. Today's announcement builds on Google's news last week that Jetpack Compose is now in 1.0 stable for Android. Here are the highlights: Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web are being promoted to Alpha. Their versioning is now aligned under the Compose Multiplatform umbrella, making it possible to build Android, Desktop, and Web UIs with the same artifacts.The JetBrains Toolbox

More desktop UI goodies are coming your way! Milestone 4, the latest version of Compose for Desktop, comes packed with features to help you build even better Kotlin desktop applications with modern, declarative user interfaces based on Google’s modern toolkit. Visit the website In this post, we’ll walk you through some of the highlights of this release. They include: A new, experimental API for managing windows, dialog boxes, menu bars, and tray icons, now based on the @Composable mechanismSupport for tooltipsBetter support for pointer events, including access to native events to

The Compose for Desktop journey continues! Since the last milestone release of Compose for Desktop, we’ve done our best to bring you an even better experience when building desktop UIs in a modern and declarative style. Today we’re publishing Compose for Desktop Milestone 3, which introduces significant rendering and interoperability improvements, and makes it even easier to integrate and distribute Compose for Desktop applications.

Just one month ago, we released Jetpack Compose for Desktop Milestone 1, the first public iteration of our modern declarative UI framework. We were delighted about how the Kotlin community has embraced Compose for Desktop. It was awe-inspiring to see people bring their Android apps to the desktop, re-implement the user interfaces of famous applications, and bring entirely new experiences to life with Compose for Desktop. Visit the Compose for Desktop landing page Since then, we have been hard at work to bring you the next version. Today we’re publishing Compose for Desktop Milestone 2, dedica

Today, we are excited to present the first milestone release of Jetpack Compose for Desktop, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable. We invite you to take this technology preview out for a test drive, and we eagerly await your feedback! Visit the Compose for Desktop landing page Delightful desktop UI development Compose for Desktop provides a declarative and reactive approach to creating user interfaces with Kotlin, with an API inspired by other modern frameworks like React and Flutter. At its core, Compose for Desk