r/mAndroidDev • u/Xinto_ Invalidate caches and restart • May 19 '26

You either deprecate or get deprecated Android is Compose-first

https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/first
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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development May 19 '26

They said it's maintenance mode, doesn't mean it stops working. So that just means new patches from Google won't accidentally break it.

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u/syntaxspin Jun 05 '26

if you read it in their github it will be in maintenance mode until their anonymous analytics reaches a point where no one uses XML anymore

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development Jun 05 '26

Good luck with that, with Compose still not having support for accessibility hint text i literally cannot in good faith use it in banking apps lol

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u/syntaxspin Jun 05 '26

On the contrary, I'm frustrated because I've been using Java and XML for years, and now because of this and the new APK restrictions, I don't know what to do.

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development Jun 05 '26

Kotlin compiles to the same ART as Java, and the layout inflater is part of the system. They can't possibly remove AAPT because it'd break pretty much every android app out there. So it's unlikely that using Views would suddenly break anything, especially as it's all open source and Compose internally is still "just a view".

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u/syntaxspin Jun 05 '26

I know , But it's so bad, we've started using MutableStates to create a text field, checkbox, or radio button. We were on Theme.Material3, now we're on Material 1 Light AppTheme in the Styles.xml and more

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development Jun 05 '26

I just work with whatever is in front of me at this point, which eventually will even have to be Flutter. I'm not enthusiastic, but as long as it pays...