Jetpack Compose Roadmap

Last updated: April 2026

Welcome to the Jetpack Compose roadmap, outlining upcoming plans for Jetpack Compose. For completed features, please see release notes.

These are the features that the team is currently thinking about and working on. This roadmap is shared with the best intent, however, it's not exhaustive and priorities might change as we learn more and continue to get feedback from you - our users.

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 3

Scrollbars

Styles integration with Material 3

Stabilize Material 3 Expressive Components

Bottom sheet improvements and bug fixes

Focus indications

Adaptive Components

Motion Subsystem

M3 Component updates

Foundation

Styles (Experimental)

FlexBox layout (Experimental)

Grid layout (Experimental)

UIMediaQuery (Experimental)

Gesture disambiguation

Drag and drop support in Lazy layouts

Stabilize AnchoredDraggable

Public API for anchored components

Graphics

Mesh Gradients

GraphicsLayer Outsets

Export portion of Bitmap

Performance improvements: vector caching

Improvements to AVDs

Blur improvements

Advanced Graphical Effects

Performance improvements: shadows, ripples

Drop shadows and inner shadows

Text

Text selection and API improvements

Multistyle text editing

Support all IME flags

Support Variable fonts via downloadable fonts

Text selection and API improvements

Smart text selection and linkify

Support autosize Text

Autofill

Hardware keyboard input

Styled string resources

Support Drag & Drop across screens

Clickables in text

AccessibilityChecks

Animation

Layout animation visual debugging
Advanced layout animation

Shared element transitions

Shared element visual debugging

LazyList Item Animations

Compiler & Runtime

SlotTable Rewrite

LazyList Scheduling / Thread Utilization

Modifier Hoisting Optimization

Shared SlotTable for Subcompositions

External Type Stability Configuration

Group Eliding Optimizations

Strong Skipping Mode

Intrinsic Remember

Support multithreaded scheduler

Testing

Screenshot testing improvements

Support Multi modal input injection

Support Common tests

Standard Test dispatcher

Accessibility Checks for Compose

Tools

GenAI & UI development experiments

Ongoing Quality & Performance improvements

More advanced Animation / Navigation support (Concepting)

Glance Widgets Preview

@Preview Screenshot Testing

Preview Organization & Zoom

Compose Preview

Animation Preview

Interactive mode

Multipreview Templates

Preview Parameters

Live Edit

Compose UI Check

Layout Inspector: Recomposition Counts & Highlights

Platforms

Platform

In Focus

Done

Homescreen widgets

Compose API

TV Compose

Compose API

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.