Support for Android Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Compose is the future of Android UI development, and I’d love to see first-class support for Compose in style dictionary.

While Jetpack Compose has an interop layer with style resources, I would love to see a more idiomatic integration.

For example, today with Compose + Style Dictionary we could do:

@Composable
fun TextExample() {
  Text(
    text = "Hello World",
    color = colorResource(R.color.color_font_base)
}

But I would much rather have Style Dictionary generate a Kotlin file containing the colors so we can have something like this:

@Composable
fun TextExample() {
  Text(
    text = "Hello World",
    color = StyleDictionary.colors.font.base
}

[vrickey123]

My team is using the style dictionary and is also interested in first-class Jetpack Compose support. Bumping this thread in case anyone is able to prioritize it.

[bherbst]

I took a swing at what a format that supports dark mode in Compose might look like based on your work-in-progress dark mode repo:

https://gist.github.com/bherbst/1b8c9a66953f25044631db68dd773429

There’s a bit of awkward juggling to get the references to the Palette object when constructing the light/dark Colors objects, but overall I think it is workable.