Has there been any discussion as to when Compose w...

# compose

[David Edwards]

Has there been any discussion as to when Compose will be implementable outside of Canary AS?

[Colton Idle]

There's a popular blog post about how to do it. Lemme try to find it... on mobile.

Edit: https://marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/2021/03/30/using-compose-beta-on-as-4-1/ here you go

It would be nice to hear from @jim or something about this. But I guess since it's not officially supported then google/android team won't necessarily want to put weight behind it.

[David Edwards]

Thanks, I'll have a read.

[Adam Powell]

right, the only things that require canary are the IDE tooling (e.g. preview, layout inspector, live literals). The android gradle plugin integration just sets up the kotlinc plugin.

[Colton Idle]

Cool. So if you could live without tooling... Then you just have to setup kotlinc plugin yourself (like the instructions say) and then everything should be good to go.

Cool. Personally I have one project that can use compose immediately with all the latest and another where we have a ton of plugins that break with AGP 7 so it's nice to be able to integrate Compose this way.

[David Edwards]

Not having Compose available in stable (or at least beta) is a blocker for me working with Compose professionally. I enjoy Canary for my personal work. I'll give those steps a go tonight. 👍

[Colton Idle]

Yeah. For me too for one project. Need to use AS beta. Hard rule on no canary. That's why we can use compose beta, but we can't use Canary. So we're in this weird state. Lol. But this article helped!

[rocketraman]

Yeah it worked for us too