Re: [Enhancement AnkiDroid] Proposal for Migration to Jetpack Compose from XML views in AnkiDroid

[Arthur Milchior]

Hi,

First, please contact our discord or mailing list, not me directly.
You’re not the first to propose this migration. Right now, we don’t
see any advantage, and a lot of risk of breaking things. Even if you
had a PR with the whole app migrated, it would still be hard to review
and ensure there is no error introduced by accident, and we don’t want
to spend time on it.

I’ll let other devs tell you if they disagree

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 6:40 PM Saifuddin Adenwala <adenw...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Arthur,
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> I'm an Android developer and an avid user of AnkiDroid. I've been following the AnkiDroid repo closely and am particularly interested in modern Android UI development advancements, specifically with Jetpack Compose.
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> I would like to develop a comprehensive proposal outlining the potential benefits and challenges of migrating AnkiDroid's UI to Compose on GitHub and file an issue regarding this Enhancement so am I allowed to do that?
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> I understand that migrating to a new UI toolkit is a significant decision, so I'd love to get your insights and open a discussion on this proposal. It would be fantastic to contribute to Ankidroid by helping explore and potentially implement this migration.
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> Thank you,
> Saifuddin