KiteVideo

The FLAGSHIP Compose path: video as a true Compose primitive.

The frames are drawn through Compose's own pipeline, so every Compose modifier applies to the video itself: clip it to a shape, animate its alpha and scale, rotate it, put it in a shared element transition. No platform view, no interop hole. On this path the letterbox is transparent by design, because video that is real Compose content should composite like it; add a background modifier for the classic black bars.

Android API 31+ can use the explicit-Window state overload to keep decoded pixels on the GPU: MediaCodec to external-OES, one RGBA shader blit, then a HardwareBuffer-backed Compose image. Other states/platforms retain their software or platform-specific fallback.

Per frame, the UI tree does nothing: the frame state is read only inside the draw phase, so a new frame invalidates drawing alone, never composition or layout.