--- title: Android development is now Compose First | daily.dev description: Google I/O 2026 officially declared Android development 'Compose-first', placing the View toolkit in maintenance mode with only critical fixes going forward.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/android-development-is-now-compose-first-yikrfiojj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Android development is now Compose First | daily.dev og:description: Google I/O 2026 officially declared Android development 'Compose-first', placing the View toolkit in maintenance mode with only critical fixes going forward.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/android-development-is-now-compose-first-yikrfiojj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YiKRfiOjj.png og:image:alt: Android development is now Compose First og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Android development is now Compose First **[Skip](https://daily.dev/sources/skip-tools)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Google I/O 2026 officially declared Android development 'Compose-first', placing the View toolkit in maintenance mode with only critical fixes going forward. All new Android UI, Jetpack libraries, and Android Studio tooling will target Jetpack Compose exclusively. This mirrors Apple's earlier SwiftUI-first stance. The post uses this announcement to highlight Skip's cross-platform approach, which transpiles SwiftUI to native Jetpack Compose on Android while leaving iOS apps as pure SwiftUI — contrasting this with Flutter's pixel-painting and React Native's legacy bridge approaches, both of which struggle to keep up with platform design changes like Apple's Liquid Glass. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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