Compose Drawing Mastery - Part 1: The DrawScope Foundation

Standard composables like Box carry a "performance tax" due to deep UI trees. By mastering DrawScope, you can "flatten" your UI and render directly to the canvas, bypassing unnecessary recomposition. This guide moves from declarative UI to the "Imperative Island," covering coordinate systems and density conversion. Learn to use drawWithCache to avoid GC jank and build a GPU-efficient precision grid using the Path API.