hey guys, can you help me with this simple questio...

# compose

[Vitor Prado]

hey guys, can you help me with this simple question:
How can I check for “preview” state inside composable? Can I know when the view is rendering in preview environment?

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Why would you want to know that? What do you want to do in preview that you wouldn't want to do in the "real" on-device flow?

[Vitor Prado]

I’m using accompanist lib (for network-image) and it crashes in preview mode, ’cause picasso isn’t available.

[Vitor Prado]

thinking about wrap this inside a composable and draw the correct image in production and a placeholder simple image in preview mode.

[Javier]

https://youtu.be/exjL2kGPngI?t=185▾

[Javier]

A solution could be a sealed class which accept a normal local drawable and a url, so you can use the normal drawable branch as fake for previews for example

[Vitor Prado]

thanks @Javier

[Vitor Prado]

@Javier is a good idea to use an ambient provider?

[Colton Idle]

Using accompanist for image loading crashes in @Preview? Sounds like accompanist should/could handle that, no?

[Vitor Prado]

@Colton Idle yeps!