Android installation

Stance for Android is a Jetpack Compose library built on Material 3 for behaviour, semantics and accessibility, and themed with Stance tokens. It looks like Stance and behaves like Android.

minSdk 24, compileSdk 37, Kotlin 2.4, Compose BOM 2026.09.00.
Depends only on AndroidX, Compose and Material 3.
Version 0.1.0, in development and not yet published. The Maven destination and the com.bindshq group are still to be confirmed by Binds.

Artifact	Contents
`com.bindshq:stance-compose`	Theme, components, icons, accessibility helpers and View interop.
`com.bindshq:stance-tokens`	Generated design tokens. Pure Kotlin with no Android dependency.

Gradle

gradle/libs.versions.toml

[versions]
stance = "0.1.0"

[libraries]
stance-compose = { module = "com.bindshq:stance-compose", version.ref = "stance" }

app/build.gradle.kts

dependencies {
    implementation(libs.stance.compose)
}

Set up

Use Theme.Stance as the activity theme so the window shows the Stance canvas colour before Compose draws, then wrap your content in StanceTheme.

xml

<activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:theme="@style/Theme.Stance" />

kotlin

class MainActivity : ComponentActivity() {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        enableEdgeToEdge()
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContent {
            var appearance by rememberStanceAppearance()
            StanceTheme(appearance = appearance) {
                StanceScaffold(topBar = { StanceTopAppBar("Templates") }) { padding ->
                    StanceButton("Save template", onClick = {}, modifier = Modifier.padding(padding))
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Material 3 interop

StanceTheme also sets MaterialTheme from Stance tokens, so any Material 3 component inside it is on brand. Stance wraps a Material component only when it adds a Stance API such as semantic variants, sizes, or loading and error states. For everything else, use the Material component directly.