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Resolving Scroll Conflicts in KMP Compose Multiplatform on iOS

  Embedding heavy native iOS components—like   MKMapView ,   WKWebView , or a complex   UITableView —inside a Compose Multiplatform (CMP) layout is a common architectural requirement. However, it introduces a notorious class of bugs involving gesture contention and performance degradation. The specific symptoms are painful: The "Slippery" Map:  You try to pan a map embedded in a scrollable screen, but the entire screen scrolls instead. The Recomposition Stutter:  As the parent container scrolls, the embedded native view flickers, lags, or resets its state because the  UIKitView  bridge is aggressively invoking the  update  block. Here is the root cause analysis and the production-grade fix for managing  UIKitView  scroll conflicts and lifecycle events on iOS. The Why: Gesture Arenas and Render Loops To understand why this breaks, you have to understand how Compose Multiplatform renders on iOS. 1. The Gesture Arena Compose UI im...