Decompose is a Kotlin Multiplatform library for breaking down your code into tree-structured lifecycle-aware business logic components (aka BLoC), with routing functionality and pluggable UI (Jetpack/Multiplatform Compose, Android Views, SwiftUI, Kotlin/React, etc.).
Please see the project website for documentation and APIs.
Should you have any questions or ideas - there is Discussions section. Also welcome to the Kotlin Slack channel - #decompose!
⚡⚡⚡ Where are all the stars, issues, discussions, pull requests, etc?
Having spent 5 years working on a variety of projects for Badoo/Bumble, I’m now off to another adventure. As part of that transition I was asked to transfer this repository to Badoo GitHub account.
Now I continue my work on this project as a copy.
There should be no breaking changes related to this transfer. Most of the external links should not be broken. The repository link is also the same: arkivanov/Decompose. Please file an issue in this repository, if you think something is broken or does not work properly.
Here is what is mostly affected by the transfer:
All the stars were transferred
All the issues and discussions were transferred as well. I will do all my best to fill the gap here.
All pull requests with all the comment history are also gone.
I will continue doing all my best for this project and for the community! Business as usual!
Additional resources:
A thread on Hacker News
Why Decompose?
Decompose breaks the code down into small and independent components and organizes them into trees. Each parent component is only aware of its immediate children.
Decompose draws clear boundaries between UI and non-UI code, which gives the following benefits:
Business logic code is testable with pure multiplatform unit tests
Navigation state is fully exposed - plug any UI you want, animate as you like using your favourite UI framework's API or use predefined API.
Navigation is a pure function from the old state to a new one - navigate without limits.
Proper dependency injection (DI) and inversion of control (IoC) via constructor, including but not limited to type-safe arguments.
Shared navigation logic
Lifecycle-aware components
Components in the back stack are not destroyed, they continue working in background without UI
State preservation (automatically on Android, manually on all other targets via kotlinx-serialization)
Instances retaining (aka ViewModels) over configuration changes (mostly useful in Android)
Meme time!
Setup
Please check the Installation section of the documentation.
Supported platforms
In general, Decompose supports the following targets: android, jvm, ios, watchos, tvos, macos, wasmJs, js. However, some modules do not support all targets or the support depends on the Decompose version. Please see the Installation docs for details.
Overview
Here are some key concepts of the library, more details can be found in the documentation.
Component - every component represents a piece of logic with its own lifecycle, the UI is optional and is plugged externally
ComponentContext - every component has its own [ComponentContext], which makes components lifecycle-aware and allows state preservation, instances retaining (aka AndroidX ViewModel) and back button handling
Child Stack - enables navigation between child components, nested navigation is also supported
Child Slot - allows only one child component at a time, or none
Child Pages - a list of child components with one selected component (e.g. pager-like navigation)
Generic Navigation - provides a way to create your own custom navigation model, when none of the predefined models fit your needs
Lifecycle - provides a way to listen for lifecycle events in components
StateKeeper - makes it possible to preserve state or data in a component when it gets destroyed
InstanceKeeper - retains instances in your components (similar to AndroidX ViewModel)
BackPressedHandler - provides a way to handle and intercept back button presses
Component hierarchy
Pluggable UI hierarchy
Typical component structure
Quick start
Please refer to the Quick start section of the docs.
Samples
Check out the Samples section of the docs for a full description of each sample.
Template
Check out the template repository which may be used to kick-start a project for you.
Articles
Decompose — experiments with Kotlin Multiplatform lifecycle-aware components and navigation
Fully cross-platform Kotlin applications (almost)
A comprehensive thirty-line navigation for Jetpack/Multiplatform Compose - if you find Decompose verbose and would prefer something built on top of Compose.
"Component-based Approach" series by Artur Artikov
Part 1: Fighting Complexity in Android Applications
Part 2: Implementing Screens with the Decompose Library
