The Declarative Revolution: Celebrating Five Years of Jetpack Compose and the Death of the findViewById Era
By Rebecca Franks, Nick Butcher, and Loryn Hairston (Android Developer Relations & Product Management) Published by Android Developers | Special 5th Anniversary Retrospective & Industry Analysis Executive Overview Five years ago, on July 28,…
The March 2026 Web Platform Evolution: A Major Leap in Declarative Styling, Performance, and Cross-Browser Alignment
Executive Overview The web platform is undergoing one of its most transformative periods in recent memory. As March 2026 draws to a close, browser vendors have delivered a massive wave of updates across stable and beta channels—including Chrome 146,…
The Evolution of Declarative Web Architecture: A Comprehensive Analysis of the CSS Navigation Module Level 1 and Cross-Document View Transitions
Executive Overview The architecture of the modern web is undergoing a profound paradigm shift. For decades, managing complex state changes, page routing logic, and visual continuity across page boundaries has been the exclusive domain of JavaScript…
The Declarative Revolution: Celebrating Five Years of Jetpack Compose and the End of the findViewById Era
Executive Overview It has been five years since Google officially released Jetpack Compose 1.0 to the global developer community on July 28, 2021. What began as a bold, experimental endeavor to rethink how user interfaces are built on mobile has…
