Understanding @Stable, @Immutable, ImmutableCollection, and PersistentCollection in Jetpack Compose

This article explores what @Stable, @Immutable, ImmutableCollection, and PersistentCollection mean, and how they affect Jetpack Compose recomposition.

Why is stability important?

If all of a Composable function’s parameters are stable, the Compose compiler will mark it as a skippable function. Skippable means that if the function is called during recomposition and its parameters haven’t changed since its last invocation…