--- title: "Learn more about the new Styles API and its performance benefits" url: https://daily.dev/posts/learn-more-about-the-new-styles-api-and-its-performance-benefits-6pmd5qmip source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LYYySmgyWk type: video:youtube source: "Android Developers" published: 2026-06-11T19:46:58.126Z updated: 2026-06-11T19:47:12.039Z tags: ["performance", "android", "jetpack-compose"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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. # Learn more about the new Styles API and its performance benefits **[Android Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/androiddevelopers)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The new Styles API in Jetpack Compose offers significant performance benefits over traditional modifiers. Styles are a modifier that only affects layout and draw phases, meaning only the relevant phase runs when a property changes. Benchmarks show styles result in approximately 70% fewer allocations and render up to 2.3 times faster compared to modifier-based implementations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#jetpack-compose](https://daily.dev/tags/jetpack-compose) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/learn-more-about-the-new-styles-api-and-its-performance-benefits-6pmd5qmip)