Fast reactive desktop UIs for Kotlin, based on Google's modern toolkit and brought to you by JetBrains. Compose for Desktop simplifies and accelerates UI development for desktop applications, and allows extensive UI code sharing between Android and desktop applications. Currently in alpha. Compose for Desktop provides a declarative and reactive approach to creating user interfaces with Kotlin. Combine composable functions to build your user interface, and enjoy full tooling support from your IDE and build system, no XML or templating language required. Compose for Desktop targets the JVM, and supports high-performance, hardware-accelerated UI rendering on all major desktop platforms (macOS, Windows, and Linux/x64) by leveraging the powerful native Skia graphics library. Desktop extensions for menus, keyboard shortcuts, window manipulation, notification management, and more.
Features
- Hardware accelerated rendering with Skia
- Code sharing with Jetpack Compose Android applications via Kotlin Multiplatform
- Powerful text rendering and layout for many languages
- Android Compose compatibility at the UI element level
- Excellent AWT and Swing interoperability
- Support for creating standalone application bundles