Any idea why Compose Preview is not working anymore in Android Studio? Is this a known issue? I'm us...

# compose

[Zhelyazko Atanasov]

Any idea why Compose Preview is not working anymore in Android Studio? Is this a known issue? I'm using AS:

Android Studio 4.2 Canary 7
Build #AI-201.7846.76.42.6720134, built on July 30, 2020
Runtime version: 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593 x86_64

with Gradle 6.6, Android build tools 4.2.0-alpha07, Kotlin 1.4.0 and Compose 0.1.0-dev17 . When I rebuild the project, the Preview doesn't show anything. It's a brand new project created using the "Compose Activity" template in AS and the Preview was working before updating to the latest dependencies (the template in AS was using Compose 0.1.0-dev13).

[Zhelyazko Atanasov]

Imported and tested on develop branch of Jetnews sample app, but same thing there

[gildor]

as I know it broken now because of Kotlin 1.4, will be fixed in upcoming AS alphas

[Mehdi Haghgoo]

Seems like the problem is with the recent versions of Compose rather than Studio itself because preview seems fine with earlier versions of Compose.

[Facundo Rodriguez Arceri]

It's because the dependency on Kotlin 1.4

[Facundo Rodriguez Arceri]

Canary 8 should fix that

[Zhelyazko Atanasov]

I also read somewhere that it's because of Android studio and Kotlin 1.4. Waiting for Canary 8 then. I guess they'll release it soon

[Mehdi Haghgoo]

Alpha 8 takes a long time to release more than three weeks. Canary builds used to be released faster I guess.

[Matthieu Coisne]

previews are back with 1.0.0-alpha01 and canary 8

[Mehdi Haghgoo]

Wow thanks for the hot news. Been waiting for so long 👌😀

[Sourabh Rawat]

canary 8 update not visible in the jetbrains toolbox yet 😕

[Zhelyazko Atanasov]

Oh yes, I forgot to update the thread here 🙂 I'm using Canary 8 since day 1 of its release and previews are back in the game 😎
@Sourabh Rawat why don't you just download it from the Android dev site?

[Sourabh Rawat]

I got the update in the toolbox.
I didnt want to mess up my studio installation by downloading directly from thee dev site. 😅