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Hello Everyone,
Is it possible to use Coil's `AsyncImage` composable in the `commonMain` package of a Kotlin Multiplatform project to load an image from a URL? I tried using it, but `AsyncImage` is not accessible in `commonMain` composable functions.
Do we need to use `expect`/`actual` declarations to support image loading on both Android and iOS platforms?

Coil should support CPM. Did you add the dependency to the `commonMain` source set?

yes I have added coil-compose dependency in *commonMain* source set.
```coil-compose = { group = "io.coil-kt.coil3", name = "coil-compose", version.ref = "coil"}```
```commonMain.dependencies {
    implementation(compose.runtime)
    implementation(compose.foundation)
    implementation(compose.material)
    implementation(compose.ui)
    implementation(compose.components.resources)
    implementation(compose.components.uiToolingPreview)
    implementation(libs.androidx.lifecycle.viewmodel)
    implementation(libs.kotlinx.coroutines)
      implementation(libs.androidx.lifecycle.runtime.compose)
    implementation(libs.coil.compose)
}```


Then the next question would be does it not compile when built with gradle or could the IDE just be incorrectly showing an error. Might need to manually add the import.

I've not used it, but looking at GitHub both Android and iOS are included in their list of targets.

Screenshot 2025-04-23 at 2.15.45 PM.png

It is not importing while calling *AsyncImage* composable see in below screenshot.

Do you have github repo which uses AsyncImage in commonMain?

Try manual import sometimes the IDE just gets broken. Useful to understand the problem.

Coil itself uses it.

<https://github.com/coil-kt/coil/blob/8e8c26559a7d1ffb67886899acf52264fb255503/samples/compose/src/commonMain/kotlin/sample/compose/App.kt#L192>

Ok, I will check once because I can access in androidMain without manual import but in commonMain even after adding manual import still getting error in import statement only.

I would guess that the IDE is confused, it happens sometimes

yes will rebuild project and invalidate the cache once.