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What's new in Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0-beta01

Here are the highlights for this EAP feature release:

You can find the full list of changes for this release on GitHub.

Dependencies

Across platforms

Unified @Preview annotation

We've unified the approach to previews across platforms. You can now use the androidx.compose.ui.tooling.preview.Preview annotation for all target platforms in the commonMain source set.

All other annotations, such as org.jetbrains.compose.ui.tooling.preview.Preview and the desktop-specific androidx.compose.desktop.ui.tooling.preview.Preview, have been deprecated.

Support for Navigation 3

Navigation 3 is a new navigation library designed to work with Compose. With Navigation 3, you have full control over your back stack, and navigating to and from destinations is as simple as adding and removing items from a list. You can read about the new guiding principles and decisions in the Navigation 3 documentation, as well as in the announcement blog post.

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0-beta01 provides Alpha support for using new navigation APIs on non-Android targets. The released multiplatform artifacts are:

  • Navigation 3 UI library, org.jetbrains.androidx.navigation3:navigation3-ui

  • ViewModel for Navigation 3, org.jetbrains.androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-navigation3

  • Material 3 adaptive layouts for Navigation 3, org.jetbrains.compose.material3.adaptive:adaptive-navigation3

You can find an example of a multiplatform Navigation 3 implementation in the nav3-recipes sample mirrored from the original Android repository.

Some platform-specific implementation details:

  • On iOS, you can now manage navigation for end edge pan gestures using the EndEdgePanGestureBehavior option (Disabled by default). "End edge" here refers to the right edge of the screen in LTR interfaces and the left edge in RTL ones. The start edge is the opposite to the end edge and is always bound to the back gesture.

  • In web apps, pressing the Esc key in a desktop browser now returns the user to the previous screen (and closes dialogs, popups and some widgets like Material 3's SearchBar), just as it already does in desktop apps.

  • Support for browser history navigation and using a destination in the address bar will not be extended to Navigation 3 with Compose Multiplatform 1.10. This has been postponed until a later version of the multiplatform library.

Skia updated to Milestone 138

The version of Skia used by Compose Multiplatform, via Skiko, has been updated to Milestone 138.

The previous version of Skia used was Milestone 132. You can see the changes made between these versions in the release notes.

iOS

Window insets

Compose Multiplatform now supports WindowInsetsRulers, which provides functionality to position and size UI elements based on window insets, such as the status bar, navigation bar, or on-screen keyboard.

This new approach to managing window insets uses a single implementation for retrieving platform-specific window inset data. This means both WindowInsets and WindowInsetsRulers use a common mechanism to manage insets consistently. Accordingly, platform-specific locals, including LocalLayoutMargins, LocalSafeArea, LocalKeyboardOverlapHeight, and LocalInterfaceOrientation, were removed in favor of a new unified API.

Improved IME configuration

Following the iOS-specific IME customization introduced in 1.9.0, this release adds new APIs for configuring text input views with PlatformImeOptions.

These new APIs allow customization of the input interface when a field gains focus and triggers the IME:

  • UIResponder.inputView specifies a custom input view to replace the default system keyboard.

  • UIResponder.inputAccessoryView defines a custom accessory view that attaches to the system keyboard or a custom inputView upon IME activation.

Desktop

Compose Hot Reload integration

The Compose Hot Reload plugin is now bundled with the Compose Multiplatform Gradle plugin. You no longer need to configure the Hot Reload plugin separately, as it is enabled by default for Compose Multiplatform projects targeting desktop.

What this means for the projects that explicitly declare the Compose Hot Reload plugin:

  • You can safely remove the declaration in order to use the version provided by the Compose Multiplatform Gradle plugin.

  • If you choose to keep a specific version declaration, that version will be used instead of the bundled one.

Autosizing SwingPanel

SwingPanel now automatically adjusts its size based on the content's minimum, preferred, and maximum sizes. This removes the need to calculate exact sizes and specify fixed dimensions in advance.

val label = JLabel("Hello Swing!") singleWindowApplication { SwingPanel(factory = { label }) LaunchedEffect(Unit) { delay(500) // Grows the text repeat(2) { label.text = "#${label.text}#" delay(200) } // Shrinks the text repeat(2) { label.text = label.text.substring(1, label.text.length - 1) delay(200) } } }

Gradle

Deprecated dependency aliases

Dependency aliases supported by the Compose Multiplatform Gradle plugin (compose.ui and others) are deprecated with the 1.10.0-beta01 release. We encourage you to add direct library references to your version catalogs. Specific references are suggested in the corresponding deprecation notices.

This change should make dependency management for Compose Multiplatform libraries a bit more transparent. In the future, we hope to provide a BOM for Compose Multiplatform to simplify setting up compatible versions.

Support for AGP 9.0.0

Compose Multiplatform introduces support for version 9.0.0 of the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP). For compatibility with the new AGP version, make sure you upgrade to Compose Multiplatform 1.9.3 or 1.10.0.

To make the update process smoother in the long term, we recommend changing your project structure to isolate AGP usage to a dedicated Android module.

11 November 2025
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