Can someone please tell me where I can find information about the compose artifacts like ui-tooling ...

# compose

[Lilly]

Can someone please tell me where I can find information about the compose artifacts like ui-tooling or ui-tooling-preview or other sub artifacts which are part of the big ones. Unfortunately they are not advertised under https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/compose
I haven't used Compose for a while so I'm a bit outdated

[Anthony]

https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/material/package-summary

[Lilly]

Thanks. Is this the only option or are there any other places with additional information?

[Anthony]

If you look at the left navigation menu, you should see all the android libraries, and navigating to them will allow you to look at specific components in that package

[Lilly]

Yeah I was aware of the reference page. I currently found this, which has a slightly better overview: https://androidx.tech/artifacts/compose.ui/ui/

[Nick Anthony]

To answer the specific question, ui-tooling, ui-tooling-data, and ui-tooling-preview provide information for Compose dev tools and IDEs. For example, they provide APIs for @Preview to work within Android Studio. IIRC, you shouldn't need to depend on them in your app

[Nick Anthony]

For module specific questions, the package summary listed are good, also the "Description" on google maven - https://maven.google.com/web/index.html?q=compose.ui#androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling-preview:1.1.0-alpha02