Remembering the State in Jetpack Compose

Patxi Bocos
3 min readMar 8, 2021

When starting to work with Jetpack Compose (now that it is in beta 🎉) and stateful components, we easily get used to define values based on a mutable state which are also remembered. But there are two independent concepts when we write a line of code like below:

var clicks by remember { mutableStateOf(0) }
  • mutableState* family functions return an observable value for…

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Patxi Bocos

Impure developer and functional programming enthusiast