How To Implement Paging3 With The Jetpack Compose Lazy Column And Android Room
Easy pagination for Android Room In Jetpack Compose
Pagination means incrementally querying data from a data source instead of loading all the data at once.
The usage of pagination in Android development or mobile app development in general offers three primary advantages:
First, it improves performance. Large data sets or slow networks can slow down your application when waiting for the respective data. Pagination or “paging” loads data incrementally and therefore loads smaller data chunks which can overcome such bottlenecks.
Second, pagination can reduce memory usage. By loading only the data that is currently needed, you conserve device memory and ensure that your application runs smoothly on devices with less memory.
Finally, paging significantly improves the user experience. The app becomes more responsive and scrolling through large data sets becomes easier. Users can start interacting immediately and don’t need to first look at a loading circle for ages until finally the data set got fully loaded, as data loads progressively with pagination.
In older articles of mine, I already wrote about a few use cases with Paging3 and the XML view system.
