# How Composition and Recomposition Work in Jetpack Compose

DevFeed: [How Composition and Recomposition Work in Jetpack Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/you-don-t-understand-recomposition-39371.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kt.academy/article/recomposition>)

Published: 2026-02-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Kt. Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kt-academy.md>)

Topics: [Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compose.md>), [Jetpack Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jetpack-compose.md>)

Tags: [compose](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compose.md>), [jetpack-compose](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jetpack-compose.md>), [recomposition](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recomposition.md>), [state](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/state.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [workshop-learning-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workshop-learning-programming.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains composition and recomposition in Jetpack Compose, including how composables build a UI tree and how snapshot state triggers updates to the parts of the UI that read changed state.

## Source excerpt

Clear explanation of how composition and recomposition work in Jetpack Compose.