Project Sparkles: How Compose is Changing Android Studio
July 18, 2025
32 min
Free
android-studio
jetpack-compose
android-development
ui-ux
developer-experience
kotlin
desktop-ui
jetpack-compose-desktop
swing
developer-tooling
animation
android
Description
This talk explores 'Project Sparkles,' an initiative to integrate Jetpack Compose into Android Studio, aiming to enhance developer user experience and accelerate feature development. Speakers Sebastiano Poggi and Chris Sinco discuss the transition from the older Swing framework to Compose, showcasing new features like task-based profilers, an improved 'add device' dialog, and the reimagined Gemini chat UI, all built with Compose for greater polish and efficiency.