for context, I did not grant AS full disk access. ...

# compose

[agrosner]

for context, I did not grant AS full disk access. only download and documents

[kenkyee]

why would you not grant AS full disk access? 🤔

That’s the gradle daemon though, so it shouldn’t matter…

[agrosner]

not sure if its related, or something with the compose preview not running actual gradle commands, but a special java plugin program inside AS?

[kenkyee]

seems like an easy way to test… grant it full access….test it…limit access again? 🙂

[agrosner]

im doing it now.

[agrosner]

ha no, that didnt fix it

[kenkyee]

worth a shot…I’ve never limited AS like that 🙂

[agrosner]

me neither. this is a new m1 laptop 😛 so permissions were reset and new OS asks for minimal permissions when requestdd

[kenkyee]

wow…they’re finally rolling them out? 😮

[agrosner]

im like only one other a hand few to get one. i did it via wayfair assist and wrote a long paragraph 2 months ago. they didnt give me a no and i bugged them a couple weeks ago and they shipped me one out

[andrew]

Lolol, I asked about this today since our PROJECT MANAGER got an ARM 16in MBP

[kenkyee]

nice 🙂

It’s such a huge difference… not a lap burner and only needs a few touchup charges a day even if you’re unplugged most of the day…

[andrew]

IT Helpdesks are a scam

[kenkyee]

wow..5yr cycle is nuts… I thought Wayfair’s 3yr cycle was bad…

[agrosner]

wow thats awful

[agrosner]

yewah my laptop can last through 2 hours of call room meetingd! Thx god

[agrosner]

compilation, IDE is no longer sluggish, I can change branches really quickly, its been a revelation. one thing that is still slow is emulators, but we got security on fixing these crowdstrike rules

[agrosner]

ok so original issue is my own doing! i had a symlink to .gradle in a crowdstrike ignored location, and that was causing permission issues from AS. all good!

[andrew]

I have my own specced out arm 16in mbp so, I’m happy

[kenkyee]

crowdstrike shouldn’t slow down emulators (only maybe on startup)…usually compilation hurts the most w/ AV software

[kenkyee]

Rendering is done using a plugin so if you're lucky, the AS logs under Help/ShowLogs might help..

[Chris Sinco [G]]

is there a way to look at AS logs for preview renders?

There may be more detail in Help > Show Log in Finder, in the idea.log

[agrosner]

nope no such logs for it that I could find related to the error message. ill poke for file not found issues , or specific compose ones

[agrosner]

running the same composable on device preview works fine. its only when its run within AS’s preview window

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Do you have a snippet? And what version of Compose and Studio are you using?

[agrosner]

i tried 1.2.0 of compose with kotlin 1.7.0. also tried 1.2.0-rc01 with 1.6.21 of kotlin.

Tried both electric eel and chipmunk

[agrosner]

opening that file with path from terminal works. so my guess is a permission issue for the AS plugin, or AS (granted it full disk access)

[Chris Sinco [G]]

thanks for the info! ccing @nosuid and @amaury who might have more insight into resolving the font file in the cache

[agrosner]

for more information, if I include the library as an includebuild in my project directly, the previews render no problem

[agrosner]

so the issue is that, the library defines it own bundled fonts, which the renderer cannot access from the file system

[agrosner]

we saw it on earlier versions of compose, but it was just a warning, which is now treated as an error

[kenkyee]

Does the library define a namespace to avoid resource collisions?

[agrosner]

resourceprefix @kenkyee?

[kenkyee]

yep…that’s what I meant… avoid resource name conflicts when someone uses that lib…

[agrosner]

so its homebase, and the app overrides them in the app module per variant for the fonts.

[kenkyee]

oh. In that case, you can’t do the resourcePrefix thing 😞

[kenkyee]

also…ugh…that’s not a good thing to do because that’ll break in future versions of AGP that won’t allow you do that override trick by naming stuff the same because that slows builds down…

[agrosner]

ah how fun

[agrosner]

do you have link to that? i can then pass it along

[kenkyee]

can’t remember where I read that…. 😞

[agrosner]

ill search. thanks!

[kenkyee]

it also might have been some conference presentation by Xavier… I couldn’t find any article specifically mentioning this….and it’s a future state that’s designed by the AGP folks…

[agrosner]

ah interesting

[agrosner]

@nosuid and @amaury should I file a google issue for this case? or is there something else that needs fixing

[agrosner]

it will significantly hinder adoption of compose at our company if we cannot preview

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Yes please do with logs attached

[agrosner]

ok! thanks

[kenkyee]

if you file it up two levels (ideally w/ a repro), it’ll get routed to the right place..

[agrosner]

folllow here if anyone interested https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/241296261

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Thank you!