# Celebrating 5 years of Jetpack Compose

DevFeed: [Celebrating 5 years of Jetpack Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/celebrating-5-years-of-jetpack-compose-22682.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/five-years-of-jetpack-compose.html>)

Author: Android Developers (noreply@blogger.com)

Published: 2026-07-28T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Android Developers Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/android-developers-blog-3.md>)

Topics: [Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compose.md>), [Jetpack Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jetpack-compose.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [compose](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compose.md>), [jetpack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jetpack.md>), [jetpack-compose](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jetpack-compose.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>)

## AI overview

This retrospective marks five years since Jetpack Compose 1.0 was released on July 28, 2021. It describes Compose's evolution into a declarative UI toolkit using Kotlin, a compiler plugin, and a runtime; its expansion to additional form factors; and the community feedback that shaped the 1.0 release. The article also states that more than 68% of the top 1,000 apps use Compose in production and identifies Compose 1.11 as the latest version.

## Source excerpt

Posted by Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android Today, we officially celebrate five years since the release of Jetpack Compose 1.0. From version 1.0, announced on July 28th, 2021, to our latest 1.11 release, we've seen the APIs evolve significantly over the years, and we're taking a moment to celebrate. When we officially announced the 1.0 release, we promised a simpler, faster, and more intuitive way to build native interfaces on Android. Looking back, it's safe to say that Compose didn't just deliver on that promise, but also completely changed the Android ecosystem, with more than 68% of the top 1,000 apps using it in production today. History Over the last five years, Compose has grown steadily. In the early days, we explored showing you how to build layouts with the basic Box, Row, and Column. Today, we've expanded Compose to work not just on mobile devices, but to other form factors such as Compose for TV, WearOS, Glance for Widgets, and even display glasses with Jetpack Compose Glimmer. We recorded an Android Developers Backstage episode with Clara Bayarri, Engineering Lead for Jetpack, and two former leads of the team, Romain Guy and Chet Haase, along with Tor Norbye, Senior Engineering Director. In this episode, they discuss the history of Compose and the early days of development. Compose highlights over the years Looking back The beginnings of Compose were very different from what you know today. Two projects were happening in parallel inside the Android team. At the time, the Views toolkit team was thinking of unbundling the UI Toolkit into a library to help with development speed, and make it easier for developers to adopt and control updates. Meanwhile, a team was working on a novel idea to build declarative layouts by embedding XML inside Kotlin, which looked something like this: Those two efforts merged to produce what you know today - a fully declarative UI Too