Changes since 1.6.2

Highlights

• Experimental multiplatform support of Lifecycle and ViewModel. See documentation for details
• Experimental multiplatform support of Jetpack Navigation. See documentation for details or check out the nav_cupcake project which was converted from the Navigate between screens with Compose Android codelab
• Support multi-module projects and libraries publication with Compose resources _{(Kotlin 2.0.0-Beta05 or higher is required)}

Known issues

• ⚠️ Crash at startup on pre-iOS 17 devices due to loading UITextLoupeSession
• lifecycle-runtime breaks Compose UI compatibility with Java 11 on desktop, it requires Java 17 or above now.
• inline fun <reified VM> viewModel(...) is not available from common due to compiler bug. Please use fun <VM> viewModel(KClass, ...) overload instead
• Compose Multiplatform doesn't provide default ViewModelStoreOwner yet. For using ViewModels outside of NavHost you need to provide custom store owner via LocalViewModelStoreOwner

Features

Multiple Platforms

• Add font rasterization settings in paragraph style
• Localize internal strings in ui, material and material3

iOS

• Magnifier for iOS 17+
• Support software keyboard inset in Dialog
• iOS a11y dialogues and popups integration
• OS logging integrated with trace
• Support accessibility scroll
• Improve iOS a11y sync behavior
• Add throttle for text context menu updates
• Support a11y for interop views
• Support HapticFeedback on iOS
• iOS support LiveRegion semantics in a11y

Desktop

• Add an alwaysOnTop flag to DialogWindow
• Basic support of BasicTextField2: #1227, #1264 _{full support and support for other platforms is planned for 1.7.0}

Web

• Listen to browser clipboard events and bind them with Compose TextFieldSelectionManager and SelectionManager
• Introduce ComposeViewport function that renders content in parent container
• Introduce minimal virtual keyboard support

Resources

• Support three letters locales
• Add DSL to configure compose resources
• Support plural string resource
• Add option to disable compose resources generation
• XML resource optimizations
• Get resource files as URI
• Support source set's hierarchy for compose resources
• Support SVG drawables for non android platforms

Gradle Plugin

• Add possibility to modify the macOS minimum version
• Make desktop preview task fully configuration cache compliant
• Option to pack jars as uber JAR, support Proguard for uber JAR

Fixes

Multiple Platforms

• Fix NaN font metrics by initializing typeface for TextStyle
• Fix render order of interop views
• Reimplement SortedSet for JS/Native to improve performance
• Allow drawing outside of platform layers
• Prevent a few unnecessary re-compositions in Popup and DesktopMenu
• Propagate composition locals to layers in the (re)composition phase
• Move the effects and synthetic events dispatching to after the draw phase in the render loop

iOS

• Fix keyboard disappear on IME action
• Fix nested scroll when Pager involved in scrolling process
• Fix a11y wrong bounds calculation
• Delay tap indication inside scroll
• Fix keyboard opening when scrolling begins within a TextField
• Fix IME window insets and view offset when keyboard appears
• Fix animation frozen after app went background

Desktop

• Fix nested scrolling on mouse wheel
• Trigger fling callbacks on mouse wheel scroll (fixes Pager and lazy column/row spanning)
• Fix Pager direction detection for mouse wheel
• Fix missing clicks inside SelectionContainer
• Fix clipping bounds of SwingPanel
• Locale-aware date formatting for desktop
• Pass the id of the node whose layout changed to accessibility controllers
• WINDOW layer fixes: #1181, #1185, #1187, #1189
• Fix crash when we resize ComposePanel after re-adding it to the hierarchy
• Fix propagation of LocalLocalization
• Re-show the tooltip on mouse-move following a click in TooltipArea
• Fix the direction of scrolling when pressing on the scrollbar track with reverseLayout=true
• Fix crash and allow selection in SelectionContainer to start when drag starts below the bounds of the visible text
• Fix a crash on Windows without dcomp.dll

Web

• Implement actual fun isCopyKeyEvent
• Fix metadata compilation
• Support sendKey test utility function on wasm target
• Send correct window sized on resize
• Dispose all listened events alongside with the application being disposed
• Modify buttonFlags only on Press and Release
• Fix keyboard mappings
• Correct density rounding in ComposeWindow::resize

Resources

• Fix resource accessors compilation when there are huge number of resource files
• Init resource accessors lazily and in external function to avoid MethodTooLargeException
• Fix Res class generation if the library is declared as 'api'
• Fix resource packaging in APK when 'build' task is used with AGP 8.2+
• Use first of preferred locales instead of a current on iOS
• Fix readResourceBytes function on Android if font is located under qualified directory
• Fix android fonts in APKs
• Handle special characters for quantity strings
• Select default resource if there are no exact language+region or default language match

Dependencies

• Gradle Plugin org.jetbrains.compose, version 1.6.10-beta01. Based on Jetpack Compose libraries:

  • Compiler 1.5.11
  • Runtime 1.6.4
  • UI 1.6.4
  • Foundation 1.6.4
  • Material 1.6.4
  • Material3 1.2.1

• Lifecycle libraries org.jetbrains.androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-*:2.8.0-alpha01. Based on:

  • Lifecycle 2.8.0-alpha04
  • Lifecycle Runtime Compose 2.8.0-alpha02 _{(due to Compose 1.6.* compatibility)}

• Navigation libraries org.jetbrains.androidx.navigation:navigation-*:2.8.0-alpha01. Based on Jetpack Navigation 2.8.0-alpha05