🛰️ Compose Radar Report - May 7, 2026
🛰️ Compose Radar Report - May 7, 2026
Here is what Google released this week for Compose:
Compose Foundation
Fixed
- Fixed lazy-layout pinned item ordering around
LazyLayoutPinnableItem, so beyond-bounds and pinned items are returned in a stable sorted order. - Fixed brush-to-color style animation transitions so styles that previously used a brush no longer keep animating stale brush properties when switching to a color-backed
TextStyle.
Compose UI
Added
- Added the
Modifier.meshGradientdrawing API andMeshGradientScopefor configuring mesh-gradient vertices.
Changed
- Updated
FocusStatedocs sohasFocusexplicitly covers the focused node itself as well as focused descendants.
Fixed
- Fixed an Android Autofill crash by trimming text passed into
FillableDatabefore it can exceed Binder transaction limits.
Compose Runtime
Added
- Added keyed
SideEffectoverloads, letting side effects run only when one or more keys change.
Fixed
- Fixed
snapshotFlowcancellation cleanup so cancelled collectors are removed from snapshot-flow subscriptions.
Compose Animation
Fixed
- Fixed shared-transition overlay bookkeeping in
SharedTransitionLayout, avoiding in-place renderer-list mutations while drawing overlays.
Material 3 Compose
Added
- Added default font-family merging to
Typography, so text styles without an explicit font family inherit the typography default.
Changed
TimePicker,ToggleButton, expressiveButton,FloatingActionButtonMenu, and menu APIs graduated from experimental annotations.- Updated
DropdownMenuItemsosupportingTextis a regular parameter on the main overloads. - Removed hidden binary-compatibility
WideNavigationRailoverloads that had already been replaced by newer APIs.
Fixed
- Fixed
ModalBottomSheetIME handling by removing the hardcodedimePaddingwrapper. - Fixed
SliderandRangeSliderlayout shifts when inset focus rings are enabled. - Fixed a
Modifier.animateFloatingActionButtoncrash caused by density int/float rounding. - Fixed
TooltipBoxaccessibility behavior for tooltips without actions. - Fixed
DatePickerandDateRangePickerkeyboard focus traps.
Compose Remote Creation
Added
- Added Remote Compose transform modifier APIs for alpha, rotation, and scale on
RemoteModifier. - Added
RemoteFontFamily.Namedsupport toRemoteText. - Added
fontScalesupport tocreateCreationDisplayInfo.
Changed
- Updated
RemoteTextto resolveTextAlign.StartandTextAlign.Endagainst the current layout direction before encoding text layout.
Fixed
- Fixed
cliprespecting layout direction. - Fixed Remote bitmap-font measurement so multi-character glyphs are matched longest-first and constant text can report measured width and height.
That's all for this week.
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