Hi, I'm getting this error when deploying preview Composable to device `androidx.compose.ui.tooling....

# compose

[Shakil Karim]

Hi, I'm getting this error when deploying preview Composable to device androidx.compose.ui.tooling.preview.PreviewActivity is not an Activity subclass or alias is it a known issue ?
using compose 1.0.0-rc02

[Shakil Karim]

Android Studio Arctic Fox | 2020.3.1 RC 1
Build #AI-203.7717.56.2031.7557721, built on July 17, 2021
Runtime version: 11.0.10+0-b96-7281165 x86_64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
macOS 10.15.5
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 2048M
Cores: 4
Registry: external.system.auto.import.disabled=true
Non-Bundled Plugins: wu.seal.tool.jsontokotlin, com.developerphil.adbidea

[George Kylafas]

Upgrade your androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling to 1.0.0-rc02 too

[Shakil Karim]

Yeah already did that still the same issue.

[George Kylafas]

Forgive me for insisting, but is there a chance that specifically ui-tooling is still hardcoded to e.g. 1.0.0-beta09 and doesn't use 1.0.0-rc02?
Is that's not the case, then maybe a clean & rebuild of the project will help.

[Shakil Karim]

@George Kylafas Yeah I just recheck it's 1.0.0-rc02 and also clean rebuild still no luck 😞

[George Kylafas]

If it's any consolation, at some point I started getting androidx.compose.ui.tooling.PreviewActivity is not an Activity subclass or alias errors.
Note 1: AS 2020.3.1 RC1, Compose 1.0.0-rc02
Note 2: Our error messages are different, yours has an extra .preview

[Shakil Karim]

Did you manage to resolve this issue?

[George Kylafas]

No, I still get the same error... Did you have any luck?

[George Kylafas]

I was trying to deploy Composables with AS's gutter icon to the left, or the respective keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-F10 for me) with no luck.
But then I tried with the deploy icon in the preview pane and it worked. 🤦‍♂️ Previews also started getting rendered correctly too.
I don't know what's the different but at least it worked.

[Shakil Karim]

Yeah, preview in AS is working for me as well but deploying preview Composable is not on latest Canary as well as on RC.

[George Kylafas]

I noticed that preview deploy works when deploying to an API 30 image

[Vsevolod Ganin]

Happened to me too, filed an issue: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/194625544