--- title: Leverage the essentials: Jetpack Compose best practices description: A practical guide to Jetpack Compose best practices focused on minimizing unnecessary recompositions and improving UI performance. Covers eight techniques:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/leverage-the-essentials-jetpack-compose-best-practices-xxhv9qgoo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Leverage the essentials: Jetpack Compose best practices | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to Jetpack Compose best practices focused on minimizing unnecessary recompositions and improving UI performance. 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Covers eight techniques: using remember blocks for expensive calculations, assigning stable keys to lazy layout items, leveraging derivedStateOf to limit recomposition frequency, avoiding backward state writes, optimizing conditional modifiers with Modifier.then(), building reusable stateless composables with modifier parameters, delegating state to ViewModels with LiveData/Flow, and applying the @Stable annotation to data classes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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