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  There are few things more frustrating in Android development than a jittery scroll. You’ve migrated your RecyclerView to a Jetpack Compose   LazyColumn   for cleaner code, but now the UI stutters, frames are skipped, and the Layout Inspector shows your list items flashing like a disco. This isn't just a cosmetic annoyance; it drains the user's battery and degrades the perceived quality of your application. The culprit is almost always  unnecessary recomposition . In  LazyColumn , this issue is amplified because scrolling triggers rapid state changes. If your Composables are not "skippable," or if you accidentally trigger a state write during the composition phase, you enter a recomposition loop. This guide analyzes the root causes of these performance killers and provides the architectural patterns required to fix them. The Root Cause: Stability and Equality To fix recomposition loops, you must understand how Compose decides  when  to redraw a UI ele...