Compose Styles in a Real Codebase: Did It Actually Get Faster?

Compose Styles look promising on paper: cleaner styling APIs, better state-based visuals, and potential performance wins. But official benchmarks are not the same as a real app with an existing design system, complex screens, and production constraints.

I’ll show what happened after migrating our application design system to Compose Styles: what changed, what became cleaner, what became awkward, and whether the performance gains showed up in practice.

You’ll learn what to migrate first, how to benchmark complex screens and layouts, what to measure beyond recompositions, and how to decide whether Styles are worth adopting at scale.