In using Android Studio Eel, I made a new Empty Co...

# android-studio

[kevindmoore]

In using Android Studio Eel, I made a new Empty Compose project. I was surprised at all the work it took just to get it to build. And why don’t we have the option to create kts build files yet?

[kevindmoore]

Started to use catalog files and while it will compile, the editor still shows errors (even though it is correct)

[Ian Lake]

Version catalogs have only been supported in the IDE starting in Giraffe

[Ian Lake]

(and that's the same reason kts files aren't generated yet - the IDE experience still isn't there yet, even in Giraffe)

[kevindmoore]

I’m a bit gun shy about using Beta or Canary versions as they tend to have lots of issues. I’m not really a fan of Gradle, even though I know it’s powerful. Seems like programming is getting harder and not easier

[kevindmoore]

One of the reasons I’ve been really enjoying Flutter is it’s a breath of fresh air. The yaml file way of adding dependencies is so easy

[Chris Sinco [G]]

What unexpected work did you have to do to get it to build? It should ideally not require much work at all since it is a new project template

[kevindmoore]

Compiling right away failed. I had to change the JDK to 11 to get it to compile

[Chris Sinco [G]]

I see. By default, Studio should be using the embedded JDK, which in Electric Eel’s case is 11. Do you have other JDKs installed on your machine?

[kevindmoore]

Yes, I installed Azul 8 & 11

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Are those installation locations exposed as env variables?

[kevindmoore]

I believe I have JAVA_HOME set

[Colton Idle]

I remember having the jdk issue and/or filing a bug. but yeah i think studio should be using the embedded jdk but it wasn't until a more recent giraffe version.

@kevindmoore I'd definitely file bugs though. esp for beta and canaries, the team is pretty darn fast to respond to me in issuetracker.

[kevindmoore]

Doesn't beta & canary require specific versions of gradle?

[Colton Idle]

you can use stable versions of AGP which i dont believe require any specific gradle version AFAIK

[Colton Idle]

but... i also typically am using latest canaries etc. AS stable is like 9 months out of date with latest intellij etc. theres so many bug fixes, and perf improvements in the latest that we just always use latest canary.

[Colton Idle]

of course YMMV, but we've been using canaries for liek the last 3 years and only had major issues like twice. and the two times prevented us from using AS. its not like we somehow shipped soemthing bad because of a canary.

[kevindmoore]

I used to have all 3 versions and would switch between them when one would have a problem

[Colton Idle]

Yeah, i get it.
if you file a bug. ill star 😄