What s the minimum AS version required to use compose alpha0

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What s the minimum AS version required to use compose alpha09 I tried to use bleeding edge Arctic Fox Canary 3 but found it bugy fails to show suggestions sometimes so planning to downgrade

gildor · Answer

There is no other version which supports Compose Only way is downgrade is use Android Studio 4 2 alpha Betta doesn t include compose but not sure that it works fine with alpha09

rsktash · Answer

Use Arctic Foc Canary 2

Kshitij Patil · Answer

Okay

Colton Idle · Answer

Canary 2 has a bug on api 30 devices where new installs won t actually install Use c3

Kshitij Patil · Answer

Okay do you found any issues with c3

rsktash · Answer

I had an issue with kotlin multiplatform project on c3 Then I rolled back AS

Kshitij Patil · Answer

< Colton Idle> is there a problem with targeting API 30 or using a device with API 30

Colton Idle · Answer

I haven t had any issues Just make sure to uninstall your app if you built it with c2

Kshitij Patil · Answer

Okay I was not getting any suggestions and IDE become nomore than a text editor and I had to submit a fix immediately you know I wrote a Fragment code without any suggestions not even for imports flushed hope this won t happen again giving c3 one more try

jim · Answer

Please file a bug on AndroidStudio and link it here if you are running into an issue with C3

zoha131 · Answer

I am facing the same problem exploding head

Colton Idle · Answer

What problem < zoha131>

zoha131 · Answer

AS studio takes forever to analyze the code And as a result I don t get the auto completion

Saurabh Thorat · Answer

< zoha131> That might be a plugin related issue

zoha131 · Answer

Thanks for link i have removed save arg plugin and it fixes the issue

Kshitij Patil · Answer

What You removed plugin and all its usages

zoha131 · Answer

< Kshitij Patil> I was planning to use navigation compose and was slowly moving away from fragment and toolkit navigation library So it was not much for me grimacing

Kshitij Patil · Answer

That sounds convincing reason to me if I have to remove navargs amp Directions from my codebase

Kshitij Patil · Answer

< zoha131> how do you pass arguments without using safeargs I m trying to use deeplinks and `requireArguments ` but it doesn t seem to work Is there any particular lifecycle state where I should initialize them

zoha131 · Answer

I don t I am using the navigation compose library I have removed all the fragment from my project

allan.conda · Answer

thanks for the heads up we re using safeargs as well

Kshitij Patil · Answer

< allan conda> So you re not using alpha09 Looks like I m stuck unnecessarily should I rollback to Compose alpha08 Are there any serious issues in alpha08

allan.conda · Answer

yeah not yet

Kshitij Patil · Answer

< allan conda> Which AGP amp AS Version are you using I ll be rolling back to that with alpha08

allan.conda · Answer

4 2 0 alpha15

allan.conda · Answer

i m stuck at Canary 8 as it s the most stable

Kshitij Patil · Answer

And alpha08 Looks like kotlin 1 4 21 makes you upgrade the AS amp Plugin version

allan.conda · Answer

yes and 1 4 20

allan.conda · Answer

there are always issues but that safeargs issue is too much of a blocker

Kshitij Patil · Answer

Exactly I realised I should have taken this conversation to DM sweat smile

Kshitij Patil · Answer

< allan conda> I just came to know that we don t need to upgrade AGP to use the alpha09 My current versions are as follows and everything seems to work fine including AS autocompletion and stuff Gradle distribution 6 7 AGP 4 2 0 alpha15 Kotlin 1 4 21 Compose 1 0 0 alpha09 Android Studio 4 2 Canary 8 Thanks for suggesting a stable Android Studio version