Learning Android Development

Correlating Jetpack Compose Side Effects

Remembering side effects easier by relating them to each other

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There are 8 Jetpack Compose side effects shared in the main documentation. I have also shared a simplified version of them below.

Jetpack Compose Side Effects Made Easy

Trying to remember all of them is not easy. To simplify things, I try to map them together in some relationship.

I won’t say it’s the best way to map them, but at least it provides a mental image to enable us in remembering them.

Image created by the author.

To make the above easier to understand, I categorize them into 3 groups

Launchable Side Effects

These are side effects that it’s we launched on composition and through a key change.

LaunchedEffect