By John K. Waters November 1, 2021 Software development toolmaker JetBrains, the Prague-based maker of the venerable code-centric Java IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, and creator of the Kotlin programming ...

The UI framework for Kotlin takes a declarative and reactive approach to building UIs, allowing UI code to be shared across platforms and sparing developers from dealing with UI update logic.

Kotlin, a language fully interoperable with Java, is rising in the ranks. Each month, TIOBE Software ranks 100 programming languages by their popularity with the programming community.

Jetpack Compose uses a custom Kotlin compiler plugin under the hood — when the underlying data changes, the composable functions can be re-invoked to generate an updated UI hierarchy.

Based on Google’s Jetpack Compose toolkit for Android UI development, the JetBrains framework provides a declarative and reactive approach to building UIs with Kotlin.

Google today announced the first preview of Jetpack Compose, a new open-source UI toolkit for Kotlin developers who want to use a reactive programming model similar to React Native and Vue.js.

Google and Jetbrains have released the first stable build of Jetpack Compose 1.0, the new Kotlin-based UI framework for Android. First announced over two years ago at I/O 2019, Jetpack Compose is ...