Last updated: July 27, 2022
Welcome to the Jetpack Compose roadmap, outlining upcoming plans for Jetpack Compose. For completed features, please see release notes.
The major themes in focus on for the next release are:
- Performance
- More support for advanced use cases
- Material 3 components
- Improve tooling, including Preview and Live Edit
- Platform support: Wear OS, large screens, homescreen widgets
In Focus items are being worked on soon and are likely to land in an upcoming stable release. Backlog items are planned but not likely to land soon.
Core Libraries
| Area | In Focus | Backlog | Done |
| Material |
Improve component parity with Material specification and MDC-Android Improve APIs and behavior of existing components |
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| Material 3 |
Component parity with existing Material library Improve component parity with Material 3 specification Large/adaptive screen sizes |
Motion/transition subsystem |
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| Foundation |
Lazy item animations Lazy Staggered Grid Public API for anchored components |
Paged collections Drag and drop in Lazy layouts |
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| UI |
Scrollbars Snapping Flow layouts Text Editing Improvements Text on Canvas Keyboard input |
AccessibilityChecks Variable Fonts Improve Emoji support Smart Text Features Async Drawing Autosize Text Drag and Drop across screens Graphics SubLayer Multi-threaded measure |
Selection Magnifier Trackpad/D-Pad navigation Mouse input Improve focus management |
| Animation |
Shared element transitions |
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| Compiler & Runtime |
Group Eliding Optimizations Exception Handling Composition Tracing |
Multithreaded scheduler External Type Stability Configuration |
Applier inferencing |
| Testing |
Multi modal input injection Common tests |
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| Tools |
Improve Preview performance Improve Live Edit Animation Inspector Wear OS Preview Homescreen Widget Preview |
Jetpack Library Integrations
| Area | In Focus | Done |
| Navigation |
Transition animations |
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| Paging |
Getting Paging Compose APIs to stable |
Improvements for infinitely prepending lists |
| Constraint/Motion Layout |
ConstraintLayout DSL parity with existing features |
Platforms
| Platform | In Focus | Done |
| Wear OS |
Compose API |
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| Homescreen Widgets |
Proposals
If you would like to propose an item for consideration for inclusion on the roadmap please review existing proposals or create a new one.