Compose Multiplatform 1.0 Framework

It’s been seven years since Ann Curry last regularly appeared on live television, when she exited as co-anchor of the Today show, where she had worked since 1997.

Now Curry is returning to live TV with Chasing the Cure, a 90-minute series debuting tonight on TNT and TBS that will use a combination of crowdsourcing and top doctors to help people suffering from various undiagnosed and misdiagnosed medical mysteries.

Curry—who anchors and executive produces the multiplatform series—spoke with Adweek about returning to the “tremendous power” of live TV, why she couldn’t say no to Chasing the Cure and her thoughts about getting left out of Today’s recent 25th anniversary celebration video.

This project lets people who are rarely heard be listened to and have their cases considered.

How do we make sure that we do this correctly, and is there a way to ethically do this?” And my second response was, “If we could do it ethically, if we could do it right, how could I say no?” Because it’s an opportunity to help people who are at their wit’s end, people who are undiagnosed—and there are millions who are misdiagnosed every year.

So that’s why I said yes.

What is Jetpack Compose?Jetpack Compose is a modern toolkit for building a Native UI in Android.

It simplifies and makes easy UI development on Android.

Compose is a powerful tool for building native UI and Jetpack Compose uses the Kotlin APIs.

You can create a UI very easily and quickly.Why Jetpack Compose?Concise and Idiomatic KotlinBuilt with the benefits that Kotlin bringsDeclarativeFully declarative for defining UI componentsCompatibleCompatible with existing viewsEnable Beautiful AppsDesigned with Material Design100% Kotlinwritten in Kotlin programming languageAccelerate Developmentwriting less code and using toolsOne codebaseNo need to write XML anymore.Less codeWith less code, you can achieve more.Composable FunctionIn Jetpack Compose, Composable functions are used for defining all the UI elements of your app programmatically.

So, you need not create an XML file for your app screen design.

You just need to make a composable function just by using the @Composable annotation to the function name.