Any idea why Android Studio uses

:app:assemble

to build when running

@Preview @Composable

and how to avoid it? In most cases I need only quick debug build. Regularly building release variant may take pretty long due to R8 and all

Are you sure it is assembling all build variants instead of only the debug one? I think you should file a bug if you are sure about that

Yep, sure of that. Actually it was from the very beginning (at least when I first started to use AS Canary + Compose), so I thought maybe it’s a feature 🙂

I think it has no sense to build the release which is pretty slow to something is completely though to be used in debug