do I have to do anything special to get previews t...

# compose-desktop

[kv]

do I have to do anything special to get previews to work in commonMain or desktop modules for compose?

I see that

implementation(compose.components.uiToolingPreview)

is in the commonMain dependencies but when I use the @Preview annotation to compose functions in either common or desktop modules, I do not see the compose preview icon in Android Studio

The annotation imports import org.jetbrains.compose.ui.tooling.preview.Preview - is this the correct one?

[Seth Lopez]

in my experience, I always have to use androidx.compose.desktop.ui.tooling.preview.Preview to get @Preview to work with the Compose Multiplatform IDE Support plugin in IntelliJ

[Seth Lopez]

I'm not sure why compose.components.uiToolingPreview is a thing, honestly

[kv]

so adding androidx.compose.desktop.ui.tooling.preview dependencies to commonMain?

[Seth Lopez]

hmm, I'm not totally sure in a multiplatform project as I haven't made a multiplatform project, personally - just a compose for desktop project. I just know that, at least in my experience, you need to use androidx.compose.desktop.ui.tooling.preview.Preview to get it to work. if you do a search for androidx.compose.desktop.ui.tooling.preview.Preview in this slack, I think there may be some results that can help you

[kv]

Yeah I'm experimenting with that now. Looks like that works for desktopMain module but not commonMain.

I've created an issue at CMP-1550 to find out if there's a canonical way to configure this. Feel free to contribute to this issue

[Chrimaeon]

Preview does not work in IntelliJ - use Fleet.
See the blogpost about the imports.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/02/compose-multiplatform-1-6-0-release/#preview-annotation-for-fleet

[kv]

thank you - ah that's unfortunate there's no intellij support yet

[eygraber]

This has worked for me in Intellij / Android Studio in the past for getting previews to work in commonMain

https://github.com/eygraber/immich-kmp/tree/master/ui-preview