Is Android Studio Arctic Fox suitable for producti...

# compose

[Orhan Tozan]

Is Android Studio Arctic Fox suitable for production use? If it isn't, that still means that Compose can't be used for production 😔

[Alejandro Rios]

On the video they answer about using compose in production

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

What does it mean for the IDE to be production-ready? The IDE isn’t being shipped with your app. I’ve been using AS canaries to develop production code almost all year. There are sometimes bugs here and there, but they’re bugs that affect my workflow, not the apps I build.

[Orhan Tozan]

@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] how blocking where those bugs blocking your workflow? What kind of bugs are we talking about?

[Zhelyazko Atanasov]

I've also been using Canary build here and there to build production apps. It shouldn't affect your app in any way, unless there's a bug in the APK signing process and you use Android studio to build your APKs

[Orhan Tozan]

What I meant with production ready is indeed, not blocking your workflow too much with IDE bugs

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

For the most part it’s actually been so smooth that bugs were almost unnoticeable on small codebases. Usually there are bugs with the Composable preview support. We’ve noticed some performance issues occasionally with our main giant codebase.

[Zhelyazko Atanasov]

Sometimes I had issues with version compatibility between the Gradle plugin version the project was using and the one AS wanted, but this has happened rarely and in order to prevent such issues, I'm usually waiting for a few days before updating AS to see if such issues were present.