Jetpack Compose

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Jetpack Compose, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Developer finds Compose and Dagger completely unintuitive and unnecessarily complex2024-03-31
Setting up a Compose project takes many steps and a lot of Gradle wrestling2024-02-25
Developers end up copy-pasting a lot of UI code, which the commenter says is hard to write and maintain2023-12-29
Text field loses focus and flickers while typing when autocomplete is on2023-08-26
Can't write generic code to find and modify every button in the UI2023-04-25
Editor takes about 10 seconds to register keypresses while developing interfaces2022-03-01
Compose lacks a usable GUI editor for ConstraintLayout and MotionLayout layouts2020-02-06