{"id":2649,"date":"2026-05-19T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:19:32","slug":"android-developers-android-is-compose-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/android-developers-android-is-compose-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Developers: Android is Compose-first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"523\">Google announced today that Android development will now be <strong data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"199\">Compose-first<\/strong>, with traditional Android Views officially moving into maintenance mode. While this move is not entirely unexpected, it marks a significant milestone in Android development and signals a continued shift away from the View system, which has been the foundation of Android UI development since the early days of the platform.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"1029\">Going forward, this means Jetpack Compose is now the primary path for building Android UI. Android Views are not going away immediately, and existing View-based apps will continue to work, but active development and future investment will increasingly be focused on Compose. For Android developers and teams maintaining large existing apps, this announcement is another strong signal that Compose adoption is no longer just optional experimentation, it is the future direction of Android UI development.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"1029\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/develop\/ui\/compose\/first\">Android is Compose-first<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced today that Android development will now be Compose-first, with traditional Android Views officially moving into maintenance mode. While this move is not entirely unexpected, it marks a significant milestone in Android development and signals a continued shift away from the View system, which has been the foundation of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[534],"tags":[28,473,618],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-android","tag-android-development","tag-compose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}