is there any immediate future plans to improve preview Atm i kotlinlang #compose

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myanmarking

12/30/2021, 4:32 PM

is 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 PM

I 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 PM

oh. 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 PM

yeahhh. 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 PM

that preview is Android one no? Hope efforts on creating a KMP one and/or hot reload

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m

myanmarking

12/30/2021, 5:02 PM

yes, AS preview

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Tgo1014

12/30/2021, 11:03 PM

Also 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

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.

@Chris Sinco [G] this is 1 of 4 erros but all are basically the same where it can’t find a dependency

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