Removing AppCompat
Coda Pizza is now fully operational, but there is one more change you can make to look toward the future. Every app you have built so far has relied on several Jetpack libraries, the most fundamental being the AppCompat library.
AppCompat back-ports many important UI behaviors to ensure consistency across versions of Android. It acts as the building block for many other Jetpack libraries, including ConstraintLayout and the Material Design Components. It also brings along many other tools you have used, including Fragments.
Despite the importance of these components in the other apps you have built, these dependencies are designed for the world of the framework UI toolkit. Compose does not depend on AppCompat; ...
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