Hello everyone :slightly_smiling_face: Using the new template <https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-...

# multiplatform

[Roman Levinzon]

Hello everyone 🙂 Using the new template https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-template
Is there any way to setup @Preview for the commonMain ? I want to create a shared design system and it would be handy to have it in there. Or I will have to have my Preview in say androidMain instead?

[Stefan Oltmann]

Does this preview function work well for you? In my experience, it has always been very slow, to the point where starting the emulator and navigating to the view was much faster. Just curious.

[Adam Brown]

no I've only gotten it to work in a desktop source set

[Roman Levinzon]

Does this preview function work well for you?

Well I didn’t get to this point actually ;D

First the Preview annotation was not available, makes sense I thought, there was no dependency. So I added that
implementation(comopose.preview)
in commonMain dep block

[Roman Levinzon]

Aannnd got this

No matching variant of org.jetbrains.compose.ui:ui-tooling-preview:1.4.0 was found. The consumer was configured to find a library for use during 'kotlin-api', preferably optimized for non-jvm, as well as attribute 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.type' with value 'native', attribute 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.native.target' with value 'ios_arm64' but:

[Roman Levinzon]

Thats actually means that none of the shared compose code is actually “previewable”, unless you go into android/desktop source sets and put your previews there…Unless I’m missing something

[Stefan Oltmann]

I meant in general. The preview feature for Android is slow, so I didn’t try it for desktop.

[xxfast]

I remember two years ago , the only way to get this working was to place all your previews in the android module, but hoping that has changed

[Roman Levinzon]

That's my train of thought as well..I was hoping there's a better way to do it nowadays

[Adam Brown]

it crashes less than it used to, so that's nice

[Adam Brown]

you can't preview anything with a Dialog composable though

[jspiner]

@Roman Humyn
hi, Did you ever find another way? It’s too hard to use preview only with androidMain.

[Roman Levinzon]

No, seems like an only way unfortunately. It also kinda killed my hype about compose multiplatform altogether..😅

If you find any workaround let me know, would love to give it another shot