Hey! Any of you used `ThreeTenABP` library to manage dates in Android? As soon as a Date is used in ...

# compose

[Nacho Ruiz Martin]

Hey! Any of you used ThreeTenABP library to manage dates in Android? As soon as a Date is used in the composables, the Preview fires an error because the timezone data is not registered. Is there anyway to initialize this kind of libraries in Preview mode?

[joney]

I don't know, but why not abstract away threeten dependencies (like state hoisting), use Strings and Longs as Parameters for your composable primitives instead?

[Nacho Ruiz Martin]

And who do you reckon should do the parsing? The ViewModel? I feel like that would limit the power of the view model and put some view logic in the ViewModel that should be hosted on the view themselves.

[Albert Chang]

You should consider switching to core library desugaring.

[Nacho Ruiz Martin]

Didn't had a clue that it existed. Thanks for it, looks promising.