Is one of the limitations losing previews unless y...

# multiplatform

[Jeremie D]

Is one of the limitations losing previews unless you use intellij IDE? im not againts it, just asking before i go beg the boss for money 😉 if there are ways to have a preview (even within the main kotlin project instead of within the shared module, thats fine, but right now as soon as i include a stringResource(Res.string.mystring) it won't generate the preview, maybe my config is just bad?

[Michael Krussel]

I don't know about the previews, but I would expect the community edition of Intellij to handle anything related to compose that the ultimate version does.

[zsmb]

String resources should work in previews, there's probably something wrong with the config of your project in this case.

Could you open a bug in https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=KMT with details?

[zsmb]

And preview should work without an Ultimate license or in Android Studio too, they're not a paid feature.

[Jeremie D]

even using android studio? or only within jetbrains ide?

[zsmb]

For a sanity check for your IDE environment, you could try a brand new KMP wizard project or kotlinconf-app, both should have working previews with resources. Then if those work, it's something wrong with your project's config.

[Jeremie D]

ok thanks thats perfect thing to do so i can validate

[zsmb]

Oh, and make sure you have the Kotlin Multiplatform IDE plugin installed, in whichever IDE.

[Youssef Mohamed]

Did you try to rebuild the project after adding the stringResource(Res.string.mystring) to the text composable or any composable that needs it.
It only worked for me when i did this