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# compose

[Trejkaz]

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[Kirill Grouchnikov]

You need to give it a surface or a box or something with the surface background to take up all the available space

[Trejkaz]

aside from that, why would the editor default to a white background when I'm clearly in dark mode?

[Trejkaz]

my IDE is in dark mode

[Trejkaz]

the app is wanting dark mode

[Trejkaz]

explain the white

[Stylianos Gakis]

He literally explained what you'd need to do for the surface to be dark. The app being in dark mode or not does not magically do anything unless you tell it to. With "Surface" in this case.

[Trejkaz]

what I'm pointing out is that the default colour of the background is wrong

[Trejkaz]

I shouldn't have to create UI in my app to make IDEA show the right background colour

[Trejkaz]

at no point did anything in my app paint white, so I shouldn't be seeing white

[Trejkaz]

the IDE is set to dark, so it should be dark

[Trejkaz]

I don't know how much clearer I can make this

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

It’s showing you the preview of your content which is just a button. Everything else is up for interpretation, which won’t have any connection to what you’ll see on your actual device screen.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

If you feel that IntelliJ in dark mode should use dark background fill of the preview pane, file a bug in their tracker