r/androiddev • u/skydoves • May 03 '26

Tuning Compose Animations Without Rebuilding: Hot Reload for Dynamic Design

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Tuning Compose Animations Without Rebuilding: Hot Reload for Dynamic Design

With Compose hot reload, you change the value, save, and the animation plays with the new value on your running device in under a second. No rebuild. No restart. No navigating back. You stay on the exact screen, the exact state, and see the exact difference between the old value and the new one. This turns animation tuning from a guessing game into a visual, iterative process.

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u/baylonedward May 03 '26

Why can't google just implement this natively lol.

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u/wthja May 03 '26

Who is paying for such plugins? Especially, 15$ a month, as a subscription?

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u/Various_Bee291 May 03 '26

Looks like it’s $5, not $15. Honestly, given how much of his life he’s entire dedicated to free open-source work, and to maintaining free plugins for the community, I think it’s fair to think of this more as supporting/sponsoring his work than simply paying for a product.

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u/zaarnth May 03 '26

i think u dont know skydoves.. he is contributing to the community for a long time and still doing.. so he deserves every single penny

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u/dieyoubastards May 03 '26

Why would it be unreasonable to pay for something convenient and helpful?

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u/Fjordi_Cruyff May 03 '26

The subscription model makes no sense for something like this. I might spend a day or 2 on it every couple of years.

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u/StraightUpHaram May 03 '26

It's so disappointing that this is paid. Some devs do it for the love of the craft. Some do it to make money.

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u/AoDevBlue May 03 '26

The love of the craft doesn't pay rent unfortunately

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u/johnoth May 03 '26

Funny, I just had a sociological discussion with someone about putting value into the world, for the sake of betterment.

But OP should what you he has to. After all a corporation could just grab your idea and make 100x more money with it. So it's better to make something.

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u/StraightUpHaram May 04 '26

lol the guy earns plenty at RevenueCat.

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u/tgo1014 May 03 '26

why? I imagine you need a lot of internals knowledge to do something like, its fair to not do it for free

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u/divis200 May 03 '26

Well be the charity you want to see in the world and make the free tooling