Anyone have any ideas why during build I get an error related to SurfaceView unresolved reference: ...

# compose

[bohregard]

Anyone have any ideas why during build I get an error related to SurfaceView unresolved reference:

@Composable
fun buildUi() {
    Column(
        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(),
        horizontalGravity = Alignment.CenterHorizontally
    ) {
        SurfaceView(ContextAmbient.current)
    }
}

[bohregard]

FWIW I have this problem with any View class: TextView, ImageView, et cetera

[Leland Richardson [G]]

its a little bit hard to explain, but if you search this group for emit, a lot might show up.

Compose’s compiler intercepts calls to android view constructors inside of composable functions. So basically, the constructor you are trying to call isn’t resolvable inside of a composable function (the IDE integration for this is still shotty which is one reason why we don’t talk about dealing with views this way very often)

[Leland Richardson [G]]

to embed the SurfaceView into the hierarchy, what you actually want is just this

SurfaceView()

[Leland Richardson [G]]

any properties you want to set on the surface view can be set using a named parameter

[Leland Richardson [G]]

SurfaceView(id=123)

[Leland Richardson [G]]

(as an example)

[Leland Richardson [G]]

these will probably not show up as resolved in the IDE, but things will compile fine

[Leland Richardson [G]]

if you want to actually construct the SurfaceView, btw, you can use the escapeCompose function:

val view = escapeCompose { SurfaceView(context) }

[bohregard]

That explains all the source code I see in the repo

[bohregard]

I was so lost on how half of these Views had constructors I’d never seen before

[bohregard]

Thanks for the help! 🙂

[romainguy]

You can also use AndroidView(layoutResourceId) { inflatedView -> /* … */ }

[Adrian Blanco]

Speaking of integrating Android views in compose, is it possible yet to integrate WebView the same way? I noticed there was a WebComponent widget, but it didn't seem to have been published yet.

[Leland Richardson [G]]

using WebView like i proposed above is possible, but getting it so that it works well and with some of the more imperative APIs exposed in a nicely declarative way is a bit of work. It can all be done in userland though.

The WebComponent we have right now isn’t really very complete yet which is why it hasn’t been published yet