I am testing out compose a bit. Just wondering if the preview is supposed to take this long to appear? One Hello World Text can take several seconds like 3-4 until it appears.

not sure if it suppose to but I have the same issue with this feature, takes too much time

I have the same issue. My small project is compiling faster than compose preview is refreshing :)

Probably could be faster in the future. Anyway, the point is you don’t have to build the whole app. It doesn’t matter so much for a tiny project that builds faster. And yes, ours takes the same time 😄

Good to know that it's not a bug 😉 @allan.conda Good point. I was wondering where the benefit of the preview is when compilation takes the same amount of time but for a big project there will be a bigger difference. I have no doubts that it will get faster down the road :)

Yes, the feature is definitely great. Would love to see working animations as well. I know the work in progress on them.

I think the killer feature of preview is ability to launch individual view on device, that is sometimes a burden on big projects that require multiple steps to get to the view

Also, you can launch previews with different themes and configurations so you don't have to do all of that on device

Definitely not meant to be a replacement for Preview, but if you don’t mind a really quick incremental build, this might be helpful for your workflow - https://github.com/airbnb/Showkase (Disclaimer: I worked on this)