is there any immediate future plans to improve pre...
# composem
myanmarking
12/30/2021, 4:32 PMis there any immediate future plans to improve preview? Atm is the current bottleneck. too slow. Otherwise compose is dope
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Colton Idle
12/30/2021, 4:35 PMI think there was a commit to AOSP that showed the intention to remove the use of gradle for previews. So I think they are definiteily going to ship something for that to try really soon
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myanmarking
12/30/2021, 4:36 PMoh. thats really nice, thanks! Atm, as a beginner, i find it to hard to learn by trying, as the preview is hugelly slow
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Colton Idle
12/30/2021, 4:53 PMyeahhh. make sure live literals is on (it should be on by default), but it makes things super fast when you're just tweaking small values.
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Javier
12/30/2021, 5:01 PMthat preview is Android one no? Hope efforts on creating a KMP one and/or hot reload
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myanmarking
12/30/2021, 5:02 PMyes, AS preview
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Tgo1014
12/30/2021, 11:03 PMAlso my preview fails to deploy direct to the device, is it just me or is some issue with canary?
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Chris Sinco [G]
12/31/2021, 1:57 AM@Tgo1014 what's the error you are getting and what Canary version?
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Tgo1014
12/31/2021, 10:01 AM Copy code
FAILURE: Build completed with 4 failures.
1: Task failed with an exception.
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* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processStagingDebugAndroidTestManifest'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:stagingDebugAndroidTestRuntimeClasspath'.
> Could not find androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.4.Tgo1014
12/31/2021, 10:02 AM@Chris Sinco [G] this is 1 of 4 erros but all are basically the same where it can’t find a dependency