Side-Effects and Effect-Handlers In Jetpack Compose 🚀

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Jetpack Compose, Google’s modern UI toolkit, simplifies UI development in Android. However, handling side effects is crucial when dealing with operations like API calls, database queries, or analytics logging that should not be part of the UI recomposition.

In this article, we will explore all the side effect APIs in Jetpack Compose, explaining their use cases with examples. By the end, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to manage side effects effectively.

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The code that runs outside the scope of any composable function is called side-effects.

Why we write any code outside the scope of any composable function?

It is because due to Composables’ Lifecycle and properties such as unpredictable recompositions, executing recompositions of composables.

Let’s understand through an example why we need to use side-effects in compose project.

@Composable
fun WithoutSideEffectExample() {

    var counter by remember {…