Dumb question of the day: Do I have to do something special to see the preview of my composable in t...

# compose

[nglauber]

Dumb question of the day: Do I have to do something special to see the preview of my composable in the documentation?
I mean this:

/**
 * My Component
 *
 * @sample com.example.tempcompose.SimplePreview
 */
@Composable
fun MyComposable() { ... }

@Preview
@Composable
fun SimplePreview() {
    MyComposable()
}

When I hit Cmd+Space I can see the sample code, but not the preview…

[Vinay Gaba]

the only requirement is that you need to build it in order to see the Preview. It’s known to be a bit flaky though so could be one of those situations.

[nglauber]

I see… I build and rebuild the project a few times but this feature never worked for me… Is there any setting to enable that or something like that?

[Brett Best]

I’ve noticed that if the first element in my composable is a Scaffold it doesn’t work

[nglauber]

It does not work for me at all 😕
This MyComposable function has just one Text in it 😞

[Gabriel Feo]

Can you share what’s inside MyComposable exactly?

[nglauber]

@Gabriel Feo does it matter? It’s only a Text with some modifiers…

[Gabriel Feo]

Maybe not, but since we couldn’t help you with the other snippet

[Madhava]

Also make sure if your composable has parameters that they have defaults, that was an issue I had.

[nglauber]

@Gabriel Feo @Madhava here is the full code
https://gist.github.com/nglauber/a4db90c27a4e3f81b39d130a6c363c73
As I told you, it is just a Text with no parameters.

[allan.conda]

which compose and AS version you use? try updating

[allan.conda]

See if you can see previews from other samples

[nglauber]

Last time I tried was dev-14 on Android 4.2 Canary 4