🚀 Awesome Jetpack Compose

A curated list of resources, libraries, and tools for Jetpack Compose, the modern Android (and Multiplatform) UI toolkit. Updated for the 2026 ecosystem (Material 3, Navigation Type Safety, CMP Stable).

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Recommended Stack (2026)
• Compose Multiplatform (CMP)
• UI Components & Libraries
  • Images & Media
  • Charts & Visualization
  • Rich Text & Markdown
  • Calendar & Date
  • Maps & Location
  • Widgets (Glance)
• Architecture & State
  • Navigation
  • Dependency Injection
  • State Management
• Clean Architecture
• Performance & Optimization
• System Integrations
• Theming & Design
• Accessibility (a11y)
• Animations
• Data & Networking
• Testing
• Build & Tooling
• Sample Projects
• Community

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🏁 Getting Started

Essential resources to begin your journey.

• Official Jetpack Compose Documentation - The authoritative source.
• Compose Guided Pathway - Google's official step-by-step course with badges.
• Thinking in Compose - Critical reading to understand the declarative mental model.
• Jetpack Compose Roadmap - Official roadmap of Stable, Beta, and Alpha APIs.
• Material 3 Design Spec - The design system used by default in modern Compose.

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🏆 Recommended Compose Stack (2026)

A battle-tested, production-ready stack.

• UI: Material 3
• Architecture: UDF + Clean Architecture
• State: ViewModel + immutable UI state
• Navigation: Navigation Compose (Type-Safe)
• Dependency Injection: Hilt (Android) / Koin (KMP)
• Images: Coil
• Networking: Ktor Client
• Persistence: Room (Android) / SQLDelight (KMP)
• Animations: Lottie Compose
• Testing: Maestro + Paparazzi + Compose UI Test

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🌍 Compose Multiplatform (CMP)

Share UI across Android, iOS, Desktop, and Web. This is the future of Compose.

• Compose Multiplatform - The official repository by JetBrains.
• KMP Awesome - A dedicated list for Kotlin Multiplatform libraries.
• Voyager - A multiplatform navigation library.
• ImageLoader - A Compose Multiplatform image loading library.
• Moko Resources - Share strings, images, colors, and fonts across platforms.

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🎨 UI Components & Libraries

Core UI

• Material 3 Compose - The standard UI library.
• Accompanist - Experimental features. Note: Many parts (Pager, Permissions) are now in official AndroidX.
• Compose Icons - FontAwesome, Feather, Tabler, and Eva icons for Compose.
• Telephoto - Zoomable images and media viewers.

Images & Media

• Coil - The Standard. Kotlin-first, lightweight image loading.
• Landscapist - Highly optimized image loading (supports Glide, Coil, Fresco).
• Sketch - A powerful and comprehensive image loader for Compose.

Charts & Visualization

• Vico - A lightweight, extensible chart library for Compose and Views.
• YCharts - Easy-to-use graphs (Line, Bar, Pie, Donut).
• Compose Charts - Simple charts for basic needs.

Rich Text & Markdown

• Compose Richtext - Advanced rich text formatting and Markdown rendering.
• Jeziellago Markdown - A simple Markdown renderer.

Calendar & Date

• Compose Calendar - A customizable calendar composable.
• Kalendar - A distinct and easy-to-use calendar library.

Maps & Location

• Maps Compose - Official Jetpack Compose components for the Google Maps SDK.
• OsmDroid Compose - OpenStreetMap implementation for Compose.

Widgets (Glance)

• Jetpack Glance - Build App Widgets using Compose-style APIs.
• Glance Experimental Tools - Tools to simplify Glance development.

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🏗 Architecture & State

Navigation

• Navigation Compose - Includes official type-safe navigation using @Serializable routes and NavArgs (2025+).
• Decompose - Advanced lifecycle and navigation management, ideal for KMP.
• Compose Destinations - Annotation processing wrapper for type-safe navigation.
• Appyx - Model-driven navigation with gesture control (Bumble).

Dependency Injection

• Hilt - The Standard for Android. Built on Dagger, fully integrated with Compose/ViewModel.
• Koin - The Standard for KMP. A pragmatic, lightweight DSL dependency injection framework.
• Anvil - A compiler plugin for Dagger 2 to make dependency injection easier (Square).

State Management

• Circuit - A unidirectional data flow architecture (by Slack) separating UI from State.
• Molecule - Build your state using Compose logic itself.
• Mavericks - Airbnb’s MVI framework.
• Orbit MVI - A simple MVI framework with Coroutines.

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🧱 Clean Architecture with Compose

Recommended architectural patterns for scalable Compose apps.

• Unidirectional Data Flow (UDF) – The core pattern: Events go up, State goes down.
• State Hoisting – Moving state to common ancestors to make components reusable.
• ViewModel & State Holders – managing UI state in a lifecycle-aware way.
• Side Effects – Handling one-off events using LaunchedEffect and rememberCoroutineScope.

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⚡ Performance & Optimization

Build smooth, jank-free Compose apps.

• Compose Layout Inspector – Visual tool to inspect recomposition counts and skip rates.
• Composition Tracing – Trace composition events in the system profiler.
• Stability & @Stable – Understanding how to make types stable to skip recomposition.
• Baseline Profiles – Generate profiles to drastically improve app startup time.
• Macrobenchmark – Measure frame timing and startup performance in CI.
• Compose Compiler Metrics – Advanced reports to check which classes are unstable.

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🔗 System Integrations

Permissions

• Accompanist Permissions - The easiest way to handle runtime permissions in Compose.
• KPermissions - A lightweight Kotlin library for permissions.

Camera & Video

• CameraX Compose - Check the androidx.camera:camera-viewfinder-compose artifact.
• ExoPlayer (Media3) - The standard for playing video; easily wrapped in AndroidView.

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🖌 Theming & Design

• Material Theme Builder - Generate Theme.kt from a seed color.
• Showkase - A "Storybook" for Android; view all your @Preview composables in one app.
• Compose Shadow - Advanced custom shadows.

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♿ Accessibility (a11y)

Build inclusive and accessible Compose applications.

• Semantics API – How to describe your UI to accessibility services (TalkBack).
• Touch Target Sizes – Ensuring buttons are large enough (min 48dp).
• Accessibility Scanner – Google's tool to automatically scan your app for a11y issues.

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✨ Animations

• Lottie Compose - Render After Effects animations.
• Seekable Animation - Seek through standard Compose animations.
• Compose Motion - Material transitions (Container transform, etc.).

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💾 Data & Networking

• Retrofit - Type-safe HTTP client.
• Ktor Client - Multiplatform networking client.
• Room - Local database with Flow support.
• DataStore - Replacement for SharedPreferences.
• SQLDelight - Generate Kotlin from SQL; excellent for KMP.

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🧪 Testing

• Compose UI Test - Official testing artifact.
• Maestro - Recommended. The simplest UI testing framework (YAML based).
• Paparazzi - Render screens without an emulator for screenshot testing.
• Roborazzi - Robust screenshot testing with Robolectric.
• Turbine - Testing library for Kotlin Flows.

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🏗 Build & Tooling

Modern build practices for Compose projects.

• Version Catalogs – The modern standard for managing dependencies in libs.versions.toml.
• Convention Plugins – Sharing Gradle logic across multi-module projects.
• K2 Compiler (Kotlin 2.0) – The new, faster compiler that powers modern Compose.
• Relay for Figma - Design-to-code handoff.

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📱 Sample Projects

• Now In Android (NiA) - Google's gold-standard sample app.
• Pokedex - Showcases Hilt, Flow, Room, and custom motion.
• CatchUp - Real-world app by Zac Sweers (Circuit, Anvil).
• Tivi - TV show tracking app by Chris Banes.
• Compose Spotify - A clone of the Spotify UI.

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👥 Community

• Kotlin Slack - Channel #compose.
• Android Worldwide - Discord server.
• r/JetpackCompose - Reddit community.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! will add guides soon.

⚖️ License

Distributed under the MIT License.