Hey guys I am using Android Studio Giraffe Canary 11 and whi kotlinlang #compose

Hey guys I am using Android Studio Giraffe (Canary 11) and while working on some composables, I have observed that the compose preview generates/reloads on almost every keystroke that I feel can be a bit too much as it sort of leads to worse preview performance as it is trying to generate a new preview on every micro change. What I want is to first write the code, and when I’m done making the changes, then I can press some keyboard shortcut like

Cmd + S

or something similar to refresh the preview. That way, it will only have to reload once that might be quicker as well. Is there a way to achieve this?

Stylianos Gakis

04/09/2023, 4:49 PM

Yes there is exactly such a setting in your IDE. Search for live preview or something like that and it should pop up.

Found it

Shubham Singh

04/10/2023, 2:01 AM

Thank you for the help Stylianos ⭐ But seems like

Live Edit

only works for Emulators or Physical Devices What I am looking for, is to disable

Live Updates

i.e. to not update the Composable Previews that are shown in the split screen while coding.

Chris Sinco [G]

04/10/2023, 8:59 PM

There’s a setting exposed through the Preview status indicator that enables and disables refreshing the preview as you type

We’re working though on exposing a setting in Settings to more easily control, outside of the tooltip. Refreshing on Save can also be considered but at the moment, you can customize the keyboard shortcut for Build & Refresh if you’d like.

Shubham Singh

04/11/2023, 2:21 AM

Understood Thanks Chris :)

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