

We are also excited to share how developers have already adopted Compose in their Wear OS apps and what they like about it. As we are working on bringing new features to future versions of Compose for Wear OS, we will continue to welcome developer feedback and suggestions. Your feedback has helped shape the development of Compose for Wear OS our developer community has been with us each step of the way, engaging with us on Slack and providing feedback on the APIs, components, and tooling. Moving forward, Compose for Wear OS is our recommended approach for building user interfaces for Wear OS apps.

The Compose for Wear OS 1.0 release means that the API is stable and has what you need to build production-ready apps. The toolkit not only simplifies UI development, but also provides a rich set of UI components optimized for the watch experience with built-in support of Material design for Wear OS, and it’s accompanied by many powerful tools in Android Studio to streamline UI iteration. It makes building apps for Wear OS easier, faster, and more intuitive by following the declarative approach and offering powerful Kotlin syntax. Today we’re launching version 1.0 of Compose for Wear OS, the first stable release of our modern declarative UI toolkit designed to help developers create beautiful, responsive apps for Google’s smartwatch platform.Ĭompose for Wear OS was built from the bottom up in Kotlin with assumptions of modern app architecture. Posted by Kseniia Shumelchyk, Android Developer Relations Engineer
