You might be using Modifier.fillMaxSize() wrong (!)
Shows how careless sizing/layout choices degrade performance; patterns for efficient Compose layouts.
Discover 16 articles on Jetpack Compose in mobile performance
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Top 5 mistakes that kill Compose performance
Practical pitfalls (e.g., recomposition triggers, layouts) and fixes to keep Compose UIs smooth.
Flow Layouts in Compose
Tradeoffs & best practices for FlowRow/FlowColumn; tips to keep layouts performant.
Recomposition Is Not a Bug — You Are
Opinionated guide to avoiding unnecessary recomposition; derivedStateOf, keys, etc.
Top 10 Compose Mistakes in Large-Scale Apps
Enterprise Compose pitfalls (state hoisting, keys, compiler reports) with fixes.
What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release
Compose 1.9: improved list prefetching & cache window APIs, visibility callbacks—noticeable scroll/UI performance gains.
Improve initial loading state in Compose
Startup/loading UX patterns that avoid jank and wasted work while the first screen initializes.
Adopting Jetpack Compose for Etsy’s Android App
ne of our Guiding Principles at Etsy is that we “commit to our craft.” This means that we have a culture of learning, in which we’re constantly looking for opportunities to improve and learn
Bringing Jetpack Compose to Instagram for Android
Introducing a new Android UI framework like Jetpack Compose into an existing app is more complicated than importing some AARS
Introducing Trio | Part III
Part three on how we built a Compose based architecture with Mavericks in the Airbnb Android app
Introducing Trio | Part II
Part two on how we built a Compose based architecture with Mavericks in the Airbnb Android app
Introducing Trio | Part I
A three part series on how we built a Compose based architecture with Mavericks in the Airbnb Android app
Mercari Reduces Lines of Code by Rebuilding with Jetpack Compose
Explains how Mercari rebuilt its app with Jetpack Compose to reduce code complexity and improve maintainability.
Molecule: Build a StateFlow stream using Jetpack Compose
Back in November 2021, Jake wrote about Molecule on this blog when it was still under development. A few weeks ago, we released 0.4.0 which we are using in production with great satisfaction.
Sparking Jetpack Compose at Tinder
It’s an exciting time to be a mobile engineer. Now that declarative UI has finally made its way into Android with Jetpack Compose, I was fascinated
The state of managing state (with Compose)
Five years ago the Cash App Android client started splitting our UI rendering and UI presenter responsibilities into distinct types. We had leaned into RxJava heavily in the years prior