Using the Modifiers on composables - devrath/urban-octo-jetpack-compose GitHub Wiki

Why we use the modifiers

• We use it to modify the properties of a composable
• Things like setting the width/height of the composable, adding the background color
• We can apply the modifiers to all the types of composable in the jetpack compose. Things like rows/columns, Text, Image basically any type of view(which we call composable in jetpack compose).
• So we can change the appearance of anything like how it looks.
• The size of the composable like how large/small it looks.
• Stuff like adding the margin and padding.
• We can make composable interactable like adding the click action, draggable, scrollable, drag/drop, etc... for it.

Other important points

• Every composable has a modifier so that we can modify its properties.
• Order of the modifiers matters, If we specify the same things in a different order, in turn, get a different result.
• Modifiers are applied from outer toward inner layer.