Hey, I've just released AdvancedPreview - a librar...

# compose

[maciejciemiega]

Hey, I've just released AdvancedPreview - a library to customise system UI decoration of your Previews ✏️.
Link to GitHub
More info on Twitter or in 🧵

Here's an example comparison vs standard Preview annotation with enabled "showSystemUi" option.

[maciejciemiega]

Currently it allows to customise:
• Screen size with enabled system UI decoration
• Background + icons colour for StatusBar and NavigationBar
• Height of StatusBar and displayed time
• Switching to Gesture navigation instead of "3 Buttons"
• Edge-to-edge content, with built-in support for accompanist-insets

[maciejciemiega]

You can use it just to have nicer preview in Android Studio, but it's also useful if you:
• Want to capture output of Preview and use it for documentation/marketing purposes.
• Have automated capturing of Composables in code and would like to have system UI decoration there.

[maciejciemiega]

Some of the future plans are:
• Predefined set of devices
• Support for display cutouts
• Manufacturer theming (different icons for e.g. Samsung)

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Display cutouts would be awesome!

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Different icons from OEMs -> Squircles? 🤩

[allan.conda]

Wow!

Save preview output for marketing or documentation purposes.

Have yet to check it out in detail, but any chance it can can be used for visual/screenshot testing? 🙂

[maciejciemiega]

Well, I think it can, but it depends what exactly do you want to test with it. If you mean snapshot testing I think usually it's better to test Composables without system ui decoration. But maybe if you want to test e.g. if window insets support is not broken on the screen, then I guess it may help by delivering a "stable" decoration that you can control 🙂
Anyway, If you check it out I'm curious about your thoughts 😉