Steering Through Uncertainty: A Leadership Perspective on the Jetpack Compose Navigation 'Navigation 3' Rumor
Steering Through Uncertainty: A Leadership Perspective on the Jetpack Compose Navigation “Navigation 3” Rumor As Principal Engineers, our role demands that we guide our teams through the complexities of technology adoption with a steady hand, ensuring that the tools and frameworks we commit to—such as Jetpack Compose Navigation for our Android and Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) initiatives—align with both immediate project needs and long-term strategic goals, which is why a recent brush with an unsubstantiated rumor about its deprecation gave me pause and prompted a deeper reflection on how we validate information before it shapes our roadmap. I nearly directed our engineering leads to reassess our reliance on Compose Navigation after encountering a claim that it was being phased out in favor of a supposed “Navigation 3,” only to uncover through diligent investigation that this stemmed from an unverified source, reinforcing the critical need for us, as leaders, to model rigor and skepticism in the face of uncertainty. ...