Chapter 5: Managing the State of Your Composable Functions
In Chapter 4, Laying Out UI Elements, I showed you how to set the red, green, and blue portions of a color by dragging sliders. We used state to share these values among composable functions. Quite a few other sample apps of the previous chapters dealt with state, too. In fact, reacting to state changes is critical to how modern mobile apps work.
So far, I have described state as data that can change over time. You learned about a few important functions, for example, remember { } and mutableStateOf(). I also briefly touched on a concept called state hoisting.
This chapter builds on these foundations. For example, you will understand the difference between stateless and stateful composables, ...
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