Visibility APIs in Jetpack Compose 1.9

Visibility APIs in Jetpack Compose 1.9 Pablo Costa 3 min read · Sep 10, 2025 -- Listen SharePress enter or click to view image in full sizeJetpack Compose 1.9 — Visibility APIsHave you ever wondered how TikTok knows when to autoplay the next video, or how an app decides when to mark an item as “seen”? That’s visibility tracking — and until Jetpack Compose 1.9, it was clunky to implement. When Compose 1.9 dropped in August ’25, one of the features that really caught my attention was the new visibility APIs. Visibility Tracking before Compose 1.9The first thing I thought was “Wait, what’s the current way of doing this then?”. Each branch is identical to the other except for the way compose tracks visibility.