Howdy! I just released a new version of “Compose ...

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[jordond]

Howdy!

I just released a new version of “Compose Resources Kit” (best name I could come up with). It’s an Intellij plugin for working with Compose Multiplatform Resources. As much as I love the CMP resources, there are a few pain points I encounter daily. This plugin attempts to alleviate some of those issues. It includes some features like:

• Automatic running of :<module>:generateResourceAccessors<source-set> whenever a change to the resource folder is detected
◦ This means that when you add a new string for example, the Kotlin accessor will be generated without you needing to intervene
◦ It also attempts to trigger a Compose Preview refresh, but it doesn’t always work as intended. If anyone knows of a better way of tricking the preview to reload, let me know
• Several resource related inspections
Inspections:

• Unused String resources
• Resource navigation
◦ Supports Strings (plurals and string-array), Drawables, and Fonts.
◦ This means you can CMD+Click on a resource and it will navigate you to it.
◦ This also works in XML files for Strings, allowing you to CMD+Click and list the usages of it.
• Unnecessary escapes
◦ On Android strings you need to escape characters like ', ", etc. That’s not required on Compose Multiplatform, but old habits die hard 😅
• Argument validation
◦ If a StringResource is defined with an argument like: <string name="sample">Hello %1$s</string> the inspection will warn you when you are attempting to use that string without passing in a value for that argument.
You can check it out on the marketplace or the source on GitHub.