Is there any way to see compose generated code in IDE?

# compose

[ritesh]

Is there any way to see compose generated code in IDE?

[gildor]

Compose doesn't generate code, it changes compiler output which is bytecode
You can find the generated .class file in build dir of the project or in resulting app

[ritesh]

Ahh okay, so all addition of composer and recompose etc.. happens at run-time by compose run-time
Was wondering if i can see a visualisation tree or the intermediate files in different use-cases.
Thanks.

[gildor]

It's not happening on runtime, it's happening during compilation
Compose uses compiler plugin for Kotlin compiler

[jossiwolf]

cc @amanda.hinchman-dominguez who has great Kotlin compiler knowledge🙂 In case you have a more drawn-out explanation of annotation processing vs compiler plugins (I'd love to learn more 😄)

[ritesh]

That would be great!

[gildor]

annotation processing is much more limited, it only able to generate new source code based on existing sources, not modify existing declarations like compiler plugins