Hello! What is the purpose of `@Preview` in the sample code? AS will only display the preview in the...

# compose

[Zhang Zihan]

Hello! What is the purpose of @Preview in the sample code? AS will only display the preview in the right panel when androidx.compose.ui.tooling.preview.Preview is imported in androidMain, but org.jetbrains.compose.ui.tooling.preview.Preview here cannot. AS does not show any preview for it.

[Vivek Choudhary]

Right. The annotation should not be available in commonMain in the first place.

[Wout Werkman]

Compose Previews are available in common and desktop code in Fleet.

[Zhang Zihan]

@Wout Werkman Are there any plans to support it in IDEA and AS?

[eygraber]

You can get them to work in AS as well. I don't remember the exact steps offhand but you have to define the preview annotation with the correct package in common code with an "optional actual" annotation, add a dependency on some artifacts, and use the CMP IDE plugin.

[Wout Werkman]

It's worth noting that in this case you will have to add a desktop target

[Zhang Zihan]

Hello! androidx.compose.ui.tooling.preview.Preview cannot load resources in composeResources of commonMain. Is this a bug?

[Eddy Butcher]

@Wout Werkman sorry to bother - do you have a tracker for this bug? Very keen to follow it 😸

[Wout Werkman]

The preview that is shown here is from Android studio, since I don't work on those previews, I don't know their issues by heart. However, we had the same issue in Fleet for common previews (if you didn't have a desktop target), and this has been resolved since 1.37.