Does anyone know if/when compose multiplatform will get better support for previews in `commonMain` ...

# multiplatform

[Deep Patel]

Does anyone know if/when compose multiplatform will get better support for previews in commonMain when using Android studio? I’m not able to see previews and it’s making iterating a bit longer than I’d like

[Pablichjenkov]

I believe commonMain previews are only planned for Fleet IDE. In Android Studio what you can do is wrapping your commonMain widgets in an Android preview and use Android preview support. Is the same or faster

[Chrimaeon]

1. this is a #compose question.
2. Fleet is the designated Compose Multiplatform Editor and has the required annotation processor.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/02/compose-multiplatform-1-6-0-release/#preview-annotation-for-fleet

[Deep Patel]

@Pablichjenkov can you please give me more details around wrapping your commonMain widgets in an Android preview

[Pablichjenkov]

In androidMain create a Composable that just calls your Composable in commonMain. Actually, technically speaking is not a wrapper in terms of software but an encapsulating function.
I think they do this in project Appyx, they have an android-only separate module just for Previews

[Pablichjenkov]

Check line bellow: https://github.com/pablichjenkov/macao-sdk/blob/master/component-toolkit%2Fsrc%2FandroidMain%2Fkotlin%2Fcom%2Fmacaosoftware%2Fcomponent%2FAndroidComponentRender.kt#L62

[dylan]

Also font loading from commonMain in androidMain previews breaks even when wrapping the previews with android previews