Android Views Is Now in Maintenance Mode — Here's What That Actually Means for Android Devs (opens in new tab)

This is a submission for the : Explore Google I/O 2026 At Google I/O 2026, Google made it official: Jetpack Compose is now the standard for Android UI development. Views is in maintenance mode. Not deprecated. Not dead. Maintenance mode. But let's not pretend that distinction softens the message: Google is done adding capabilities to the old system. Everything new — every layout primitive, every performance improvement, every accessibility feature — goes into Compose only. I've been writing A...