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Hard to understate how massive of a performance gain this is. This is going to make your app faster with no work other than upgrading AGP (I know that it is not easy to do)

Max, the beloved Recycle Bookstore cat for which there is no better memorial tribute than @scalzi.com 's excellent book Starter Villain.

Max, we miss you! But we now know what you did when you weren't in your window!

Everytime I see MCP it is my first thought.

Exploring PausableComposition internals in Jetpack Compose Explore the internals of the `PausableComposition` API in Jetpack Compose to improve UI performance by pre-composing elements during idle time in Android

Shreyas Patil wrote a nice article about Pausable Composition!

We have been working on designs for this feature for quite a while until Leland asked "Why don't we just skip?". Ben Tengrove did a prototype to prove it would work and voila a feature is born.

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No we just remove the remember holders. The slot table needs to keep the nodes that are being reysed

Sure the chicken will kill you but at least you won’t have to read about Black airmen!

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 213: Compose runtime and performance In this episode, Tor and Romain chat with Leland and Chuck from the Compose team about performance -- recent optimizations, upcoming optimizations, and challenges. Leland: Chuck: Tor: Romain: ,&nb...

@intelligibabble.bsky.social and I discuss Compose performance on the Android Developers Backstage podcast with @tornorbye.bsky.social and @romainguy.dev

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