You're building an Android app with Jetpack Compose. You need 3D. Maybe a product viewer, a model configurator, or AR furniture placement. You search. You ask ChatGPT. You try Copilot. And you get: Unity (50MB+, no Compose), raw Filament (1000 lines to render a cube), or Sceneform (deprecated since 2021). There's a gap. Android has no built-in 3D composable. Until now. SceneView: 3D as a Composable SceneView treats 3D the same way Compose treats UI: declaratively. SceneView { } is a composable like Column { } or LazyList { } . Nodes are composables. State is Kotlin state. implementation ( "io.github.sceneview:sceneview:4.0.0" ) Display a 3D model in 15 lines @Composable fun ProductViewer () { val engine = rememberEngine () val modelLoader = rememberModelLoader ( engine ) SceneView ( modifier = Modifier . fillMaxSize (), engine = engine , modelLoader = modelLoader , cameraManipulator = rememberCameraManipulator () ) { rememberModelInstance ( modelLoader , "models/sneaker.glb" ) ?. let { ModelNode ( modelInstance = it , scaleToUnits = 1.0f , autoAnimate = true ) } } } Place sneaker.glb in src/main/assets/models/ . The model loads asynchronously, rememberModelInstance returns null while loading, then triggers recomposition. No callbacks, no lifecycle — just state. What you get out of the box SceneView includes 26+ composable node types: ModelNode — GLB/glTF models with animation CubeNode, SphereNode, CylinderNode — primitive geometry ImageNode — textured quads VideoNode — video textures on 3D surfaces LightNode — point, spot, directional lights TextNode — 3D text billboards ViewNode — any Compose UI in 3D space All powered by Google Filament — the same PBR engine used in Google Maps and Android Auto. AR in Compose: One More Import implementation ( "io.github.sceneview:arsceneview:4.0.0" ) @Composable fun ARFurniturePlacement () { val engine = rememberEngine () val modelLoader = rememberModelLoader ( engine ) val anchors = remember { mutableStateListOf < Anchor >() } val chair = rememberModelInstance ( modelLoader , "models/chair.glb" ) ARSceneView ( modifier = Modifier . fillMaxSize (), engine = engine , modelLoader = modelLoader , planeRenderer = true , onTouchEvent = { hitResult , _ -> hitResult ?. let { anchors . add ( it . createAnchor ()) } } ) { anchors . forEach { anchor -> chair ?. let { model -> AnchorNode ( anchor = anchor ) { ModelNode ( modelInstance = model , scaleToUnits = 0.8f , isEditable = true ) } } } } } isEditable = true gives you drag, pinch-to-scale, and two-finger rotate. AR state is Compose state — when anchors changes, the scene recomposes. Supported AR features: plane detection, image tracking, face mesh, cloud anchors, geospatial anchors, depth occlusion, light estimation. Why Not Unity / Filament / Sceneform? SceneView Unity Raw Filament Sceneform Compose native Yes No No No APK size ~5MB ~50MB+ ~3MB ~5MB AR built-in Yes (ARCore) Plugin No Yes Active v4.0.0 (2026) Yes Yes Deprecated (2021) Learning curve Low High Very high Low Scene graph 26+ node types Full engine None 5 node types Cross-platform Android, iOS, Web All Android only Android only SceneView wraps Filament internally — same rendering quality, 100x less code. Cross-Platform: Same API, Native Renderers SceneView also supports: iOS/macOS/visionOS : SwiftUI + RealityKit (native Apple renderer) Web : Kotlin/JS + Filament.js (WASM) Flutter : PlatformView bridge React Native : Fabric bridge Each platform uses its native renderer — no cross-compiled runtime. The API mirrors across platforms: SceneView { ModelNode(...) } works on Android and iOS. AI-First: Ask Any AI to Build Your 3D App SceneView is designed so that AI assistants generate correct code on the first try: llms.txt — 3000-line machine-readable API reference MCP Server — 28 tools for Claude/Cursor (install: npx sceneview-mcp ) Copilot/Cursor/Windsurf rules — IDE-specific code generation patterns Try it: open Claude and ask "build me an AR app with SceneView." The MCP server provides validated samples and the full API, so you get compilable code. Industry-specific MCP servers are also available: npx automotive-3d-mcp — car configurators npx healthcare-3d-mcp — medical visualization npx gaming-3d-mcp — game development npx interior-design-3d-mcp — interior design Get Started // build.gradle.kts implementation ( "io.github.sceneview:sceneview:4.0.0" ) // 3D only implementation ( "io.github.sceneview:arsceneview:4.0.0" ) // 3D + AR GitHub (1.2k+ stars) Full API Reference MCP Server (13k+ monthly installs) Discord SceneView is open source (Apache 2.0) and actively maintained. Try it in your next Compose project.