Compose Multiplatform

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