Hello, I have question for tool/IDE with compose....

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[Vedran]

Hello,

I have question for tool/IDE with compose.

I come from java and I'm learning Kotlin a bit by creating desktop compose app and spring boot service with kotlin.

Now, for spring boot service intelliJ works just fine. Still I think works better with java but I'm happy.

What about the compose part? I'm using this Fleet. It was recommended on the website. But is there really nothing better?
I tried to start it with intelliJ, but it did not really seem to be happy. Am I missing something here?

[Arjan van Wieringen]

IntelliJ is the de-facto tool. It’s an extremely powerful editor with great Kotlin integration. It might require some getting used to, it isn’t a simple editor like VS Code is.

What are you running into?

[Vedran]

IntelliJ is my goto also. I use it for java many years already.
And I had no problem with kotlin/spring boot.

But kotlin/compose I got all kinds of errors when I opened the project, so I took this Fleet which was recommended, fleet had no problems with auto-setup of the project and I could just run it.
But actuall development is really much worse than IntelliJ...

I will try IntelliJ once more, I just thought it's not for compose apps...

[Vedran]

ah I see...
problem was gradle, saes its not compatible with jdk21

[Vedran]

Yeah, I really dont know... But it seams I'm not able to setup gradle in my intellij to simply start my app while Fleet does not have this problem out of the box

[Vedran]

I solved it....

ah... I really dont like this gradle

[Arjan van Wieringen]

You need to get used to it. Compared to the nightmare that is NPM/yarn/pnpm/bun/nx/whateveristhelatesrfad Gradle is a godsend ;)

[Idongesit Samuel Robson]

How about android studio for the compose it may be easier to manage gradle there

[Vedran]

maybe yeah, I never used it.
Seams to be working now with IntelliJ.