Hi :) It seems that Compose previews are not being displayed in a KMP project. Does anyone know ho...

# multiplatform

[Alexis Jiménez]

Hi :)

It seems that Compose previews are not being displayed in a KMP project. Does anyone know how this could be solved?

[Pablichjenkov]

Did you add:

api(compose.uiTooling)
            api(compose.preview)

[SanjayKarki]

@Pablichjenkov Where do we put this??? commonMain ?

[Pablichjenkov]

No, jvmMain and androidMain or both if you want to preview in both.
For Android you need a couple of other lines in the Android specific configuration block

[Pablichjenkov]

buildFeatures {
        compose = true
    }
    composeOptions {
        kotlinCompilerExtensionVersion = "1.5.4"
    }

[Pablichjenkov]

kotlinCompilerExtensionVersion above perhaps not the most recent.

[SanjayKarki]

Thanks for the information @Pablichjenkov just waiting for preview to support in KMM

[McEna]

You can always add a @preview function in the android source set and display composables from the common source ser there.

[Alexis Jiménez]

Hi @Pablichjenkov I just noticed that dependencies start with api instead of implementation. Do you think that this affect the Compose Preview?
Or maybe Compose Preview is not available for KMP yet.

[Pablichjenkov]

No it doesn't affect it. Using api allows you to apply the dependencies in the common module and export it to consumer modules, so you don't write it twice or triple. Using implementation you will have to include the dependency in common module and also in each consumer module, it doesn't expose transitive dependencies.

[Alexis Jiménez]

Got it, thanks for pointing it out.