React, Compose, & SwiftUI

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Android UI framework has been around since Android’s birth and available publically since 2009¹. While there have been some notable changes, like the advent of fragments in the honeycomb release, the fundamental substrate has been largely the same. These days View.java is a good text editor performance benchmark, lists in the UI require carefully arranging several components, and buttons can be configured to make their text label selectable. It’s time to begin again.