Is not possible to preview a composable in Compose Desktop? I searched everywhere, google, stackover...

# compose-desktop

[Pablo]

Is not possible to preview a composable in Compose Desktop? I searched everywhere, google, stackoverflow, and a lot of places like these:
https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/tree/master/tutorials
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/kotlin-multiplatform-dev/compose-desktop-components.html
Cannot find how to preview a composable in Compose Desktop. For example:

@Preview
@Composable
fun MainScreenPreview() {
    MaterialTheme {
        MainScreen()
    }
}

I can't see anywhere a button for displaying the preview.

[Chrimaeon]

You could have searched in this channel 😅
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C01D6HTPATV/p1718563228452509?thread_ts=1718556719.103919&channel=C01D6HTPATV&message_ts=1718563228.452509

[Chrimaeon]

And here
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1730542777197159?thread_ts=1730497548.770639&channel=CJLTWPH7S&message_ts=1730542777.197159

[Pablo]

so not supported in Android Studio

[Pablo]

😕

[Pablo]

thanks

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

this is Android Studio 🙂

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16541-compose-multiplatform-ide-support

[Chrimaeon]

But it does not support compose multiplatform composables, right?

[Chrimaeon]

Image from iOS.jpg

[Pablo]

@Konstantin Tskhovrebov Thanks, I installed it, and I have the preview in my commonMain ui package, but I can't see any button for displaying the preview

[Pablo]

on the other hand, I installed Fleet, and can't use the preview either, I got this exception:
Failed to invoke Composable Method 'com.package.ui.MainScreenKt.MainScreenPreview'.
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No ViewModelStoreOwner was provided via LocalViewModelStoreOwner

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

support for developing Compose for Desktop

common previews work in the fleet only

[Pablo]

and that exception under fleet how can be solved?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

ask in #CJLTWPH7S

[Pablo]

seems to be an issue related with jetpack compose desktop

[Pablo]

I'm using Koin

[Pablo]

and it seems that preview is not working because can't find the viewmodel, which is injected in the parameter of the composable

[Pablo]

well I tryed extracting it from the constructor and still gives an error, but now Fleet doesn't tell which one

[Pablo]

I think Fleet is still not working correctly, also seems to be much more slower

[Pablo]

I think I'm coming back to AS