Since the announcement of Jetpack Compose, followed by the developer and alpha releases of the framework, excitement has been building around getting this into our apps. With the migration to Compose, we will see huge improvements in developer productivity, application stability and maintainability, as well as other side affects in things such as hiring (who wouldn’t want to work on a team adopting these new technologies!). However, alongside all of these topics, one question I often get asked around Jetpack Compose is when is there going to be a stable release? It is also something I often wonder too! Whilst this is not likely to happen just yet, I feel it’s important to focus on what we can do now to get our team and apps ready for compose adoption — there are a collection of things that we can start or continue doing to make this transition smoother when the time comes. It’s likely that we’re not going to migrate our whole app right away (as tempting as it may be), anything we can do to prepare our app will help to reduce any friction in this eventual transition — and at the same time naturally improving our codebase.
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