Show notes
Today, I’m more than excited to welcome on stage Sebastian Aigner, Developer Advocate at JetBrains.Sebastian is with us to talk about Jetpack Compose Desktop, a new declarative UI framework for Desktop applications written in Kotlin.Jetpack Compose Desktop is the porting of Jetpack Compose, the declarative UI framework for Android. JetBrains took the Compose to the next level offering a lot of new APIs and tools to make Desktop UI development a pleasure again. The project gained a lot of popularity recently on Github.Sebastian is here to talk about his experience with the tool, how to write your first Compose Desktop application and how to contribute to the framework.Enjoy the show 👨🍳Show Notes 00:27 Intro 01:13 Episode Start 01:44 Sebastian’s Introduction 03:14 What is Jetpack Compose Desktop? 04:37 Jetpack Compose for Android 05:35 Desktop and UIs 07:30 Why not Jetbrains UI? 09:12 It just works TM 09:42 Package naming 10:21 Supported platforms 11:43 Migrating existing applications 13:42 The next Compose Desktop app from JB? 14:39 How to contribute to Ccompose Desktop? 16:49 What is the current project direction? 18:35 Where to provide feedback? 19:49 Where to find support? 20:55 Official Compose Desktop Examples 23:17 Seb’s experience with Compose Desktop 28:49 What is still missing in Compose Desktop? 30:07 Push notifications on Desktop 31:44 What’s the future for Compose Desktop? 33:01 Compose for Web!? 34:41 Learning material 36:30 Where to find Seb online?Resources JetBrains/compose-jb on Github Compose for Desktop Official Documentation React to Jetpack Compose Dictionary Job Opening - UI Framework Developer (JetBrains Compose Team) Learning Material Jetpack Compose Pathways Tutorial for Compose Desktop Codeviewer Example on Github JetIssues Example on Github ImageViewer Example on Github Todoapp Example on Github @SebastianAigner on Github @sebi_io on Twitter #compose-desktop on Kotlinlang Slack (get an invite here)Show links Podcast Website The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts @thebakerydev on Twitter @cortinico on Twitter
