compose-jb/CHANGELOG.md

1.0.0-beta (Oct 2021)

Common

• no Android artifacts are published anymore. Google-published artifacts are referenced instead. This approach eliminates compatibility issues.

Desktop

Features

• Accessability support on MacOS
• Smart rendering fallback logic (no crashes on bad hardware/drivers anymore)
• Performance improvement of software rendering (up to 100%)
• Transparent window support
• clickable and toggleable components have a hoverable indication

API changes

• DesktopMaterialTheme is deprecated, use MaterialTheme instead
• WindowSize is deprecated, use DpSize instead
• Modifier.pointerMoveFilter marked as Experimental, stable alternatives are Modifier.hoverable or Modifier.pointerInput
• Modifier.mouseScrollFilter marked as Experimental, this API will likely change in the future

API breaking changes

• Old Window API (AppWindow, AppManager) was removed
• Modifier.pointerIcon is replaced with Modifier.pointerHoverIcon
• Tray can be used only inside ApplicationScope now
• Tray(hint=) replaced with Tray(tooltip=)

Web

Features

• SVG support

API changes

• Controlled Inputs were added
• New API for testing - test-utils was added

1.0.0-alpha (Aug 2021)

Common

• Desktop, Web, and Android artifacts publish at the same time with the same version

Desktop

Features

• Context menu support in selectable text
• Cursor change behavior in text and pointer icon API
• Mouse Clickable modifier
• Tab navigation between text fields by default
• Resource packing to native distribution
• Support @Preview annotation in desktopMain sourceSet's (when the Compose MPP plugin is installed in IDEA)
• New features for Composable menu (icons, shortcuts, mnemonics, radiob buttons, checkboxes
• Adaptive window size
• Support Linux on ARM64
• Support hidpi on some Linux distros
• Support resizing of undecorated resizable windows (Window(undecorated=true, resizable=true, ...))

API changes

• new Window API is no longer experimental
• old Window API is deprecated
• classes from android.compose.desktop.* moved to androidx.compose.ui.awt.* (ComposeWindow, ComposePanel, etc)
• svgResource/vectorXmlResource/imageResource replaced by painterResource

API breaking changes

• Window level keyboard API for the old Window API removed
• Window(icon: BufferedImage) replaced by Window(icon: Painter)
• ContextMenu renamed to CursorDropdownMenu

Web

API changes

• classes behave cumulatively
• removed content builder for empty elements
• Introduce CSS arithmetic operations
• Improved the types of Inputs and input events
• CSS Animations
• All event types expose native properties
• Added a complete list of HTML color aliases
• Introduce support for CSS Grid API
• Deprecate Color.RGB, Color.HSL etc. functions in favor of top-level rgb, hsl an so on
• negate CSSNumeric value directly

API breaking changes

• boolean like attributes don't have any parameters anymore
• removed input type specific event listeners
• replaced maxWidth/minWidth media queries with prefixed names
• Remove CSSVariables context and introduce specialized methods for adding String- and Number-valued CSS variables
• inline style builder was moved into AttributeBuilder scope

M4 (Jun 2021)

• New experimental Composable Window API
• Tooltips
• Use Metal renderer for macOS by default
• Expose a swing mouse event in Modifier.pointerInput
• Improved keyboard support in TextField
• Avoid forcing discrete GPU on multi-GPU MacOS machines in Skiko and native distributions
• Make DropdownMenu focusable by default
• Scrollbar. get rid of itemCount and averageItemSize from rememberScrollbarAdapte
• Support scrollbars for LazyColumn with reverseLayout = true
• Fix memory leak
• Fix Scroll NaN rounding bug, desktop version
• Fix Dragging prevents pointer move events
• Fix Dragging window to another display makes Icon show up incorrectly
• Fix "Padding must be non-negative" after resizing window with Slider and Box
• Breaking change old Dialog/Menubar/Tray are moved to androidx.compose.ui.window.v1

M3 (Feb 2021)

• Improve TextField
• Support SVG
• Support vsync, sync composition with rendering frames
• Support DirectX on Windows by default
• Support software rendering fallback
• Implement signing and notarization for macOS
• Improve Swing interoperability support Swing component in Compose hierarchy
• Support using Compose in IntelliJ plugins
• Skiko native binaries are now signed on macOS (x64 and arm)
• Fix Ambients are not transferred across pop ups
• Fix Laggy UI on Linux
• Fix Using AndroidX Compose specific dependencies for Android target

M2 (Dec 2020)

• Swing interoperability support (Compose in Swing frame)
• Support XML vector images
• Support for Gradle 6.6 and 6.7
• Support macOS 10.13 and 10.14
• Support Apple Silicon (arm64) natively
• Support letter spacing in text
• Implemented desktop "ActualDialog" and "ActualPopup"
• Fix input method bar positioning
• Fix text alignment
• Fix dropdown/popup positioning
• Fix using with Compose in same app as Java FX
• Added screenshots of example apps

M1 (Nov 2020)

• Initial release