🛰️ Compose Radar Report - Jul 19, 2026

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Here is what Google released this week for Compose:

Material 3 Compose

Added

• Added a new material3-ripple artifact for ripple focus rings that use inset focus instead of an opacity layer. material3 now uses it internally, and apps that previously used material-ripple directly can adopt the new artifact when they need the Material 3 focus treatment.

Changed

• Re-added @ExperimentalMaterial3Api to AppBarWithSearch.
• Changed scrollbar APIs so the ScrollIndicatorState parameter is non-nullable, making scroll indicator state handling explicit.

Fixed

• Fixed RichTooltip and PlainTooltip caret rendering so the caret no longer appears late during entrance animations.
• Fixed TimePicker margins and colon spacing in the expressive time picker.
• Clamped tooltip placement to window boundaries so tooltips are less likely to be cut off on small screens or with large font settings.

Compose Remote Creation

Added

• Added rememberRemoteImageBitmap(url) and exposed rememberMutableRemoteImageBitmap for remote images that are not backed by a named bitmap.
• Exposed RemoteStateScope.remotePath and RemotePathScope so remote paths can be built through the DSL from state.

Fixed

• Removed the restricted LIBRARY_GROUP overload of rememberRemoteDocument from the public artifact.

Wear Material 3 Compose

Changed

• Moved ButtonContent, AppCardContent, and TitleCardContent into ButtonDefaults and CardDefaults, so callers now access those content helpers through defaults objects.
• Renamed gestureLabel to onGestureLabel in Modifier.oneHandedGesture, made it nullable, and removed the default value.
• Replaced the one-handed gesture InteractionSource flow with OneHandedGestureIndicatorState for coordinating indicator visibility and animation.

Fixed

• Temporarily removed default one-handed gesture support from AlertDialog to avoid pulling Wear SDK gesture dependencies into apps that otherwise do not use them.
• Fixed TimePicker animation behavior when Reduce Motion is enabled.

Wear Foundation

Fixed

• Enhanced TransformingLazyColumn placement animations so items moving out of the viewport slide away instead of fading abruptly, and fixed scaling snaps during those animations.
• Switched firstVisibleItemLayoutItemInfo to index-based item info, improving viewport anchoring during reorder and shuffle updates.

XR Compose

Added

• Added SubspaceModifier.spatializedAudioOutput for spatializing ExoPlayer and sound-effect playback from the composable it is attached to.
• Added a movePolicy overload for movable with MovePolicy, and started deprecating the older movable and transformingMovable APIs.
• Added ResizePolicy to the resizable modifier so apps can choose whether the system applies resize gestures automatically or reports resize events for custom state handling.

Changed

• Removed the ComponentOverride APIs from the XR Compose surface.
• Marked GltfAnimation and SpatialGltfModelAnimation APIs experimental, with some animation properties exposed as getters.
• Changed XR density behavior so meter-to-pixel conversion is constant, deprecating Meter.kt in favor of Session.scene.virtualPixelDensity.

Navigation 3

Fixed

• Fixed UriDeepLinkMatcher matching for URI patterns without a scheme or leading //, so patterns like www.example.com/home now match http://www.example.com/home.
• Clarified UriDeepLinkMatcher fragment wildcard docs: wildcard fragments match any input, but the input is not extracted as an argument.

That's all for this week.

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