🛰️ 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.meshGradient drawing API and MeshGradientScope for configuring mesh-gradient vertices.

Changed

• Updated FocusState docs so hasFocus explicitly covers the focused node itself as well as focused descendants.

Fixed

• Fixed an Android Autofill crash by trimming text passed into FillableData before it can exceed Binder transaction limits.

Compose Runtime

Added

• Added keyed SideEffect overloads, letting side effects run only when one or more keys change.

Fixed

• Fixed snapshotFlow cancellation 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, expressive Button, FloatingActionButtonMenu, and menu APIs graduated from experimental annotations.
• Updated DropdownMenuItem so supportingText is a regular parameter on the main overloads.
• Removed hidden binary-compatibility WideNavigationRail overloads that had already been replaced by newer APIs.

Fixed

• Fixed ModalBottomSheet IME handling by removing the hardcoded imePadding wrapper.
• Fixed Slider and RangeSlider layout shifts when inset focus rings are enabled.
• Fixed a Modifier.animateFloatingActionButton crash caused by density int/float rounding.
• Fixed TooltipBox accessibility behavior for tooltips without actions.
• Fixed DatePicker and DateRangePicker keyboard focus traps.

Compose Remote Creation

Added

• Added Remote Compose transform modifier APIs for alpha, rotation, and scale on RemoteModifier.
• Added RemoteFontFamily.Named support to RemoteText.
• Added fontScale support to createCreationDisplayInfo.

Changed

• Updated RemoteText to resolve TextAlign.Start and TextAlign.End against the current layout direction before encoding text layout.

Fixed

• Fixed clip respecting 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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