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it’s possible without it, but that artifact does add a lot of “adapters” that would make your life a lot easier

Cool, so I should just be able to “call” any `View` subclass from a composable function? Are there any requirements about which view constructors are required or anything? I’m trying to do this with a custom view and I’m only seeing the constructors I’ve defined, no versions with `ref` or anything.

So I’ve got a custom View that looks like this:
```class WorkflowViewStub
@JvmOverloads constructor(
  context: Context,
  attributeSet: AttributeSet? = null,
  defStyle: Int = 0,
  defStyleRes: Int = 0
) : View(context, attributeSet, defStyle, defStyleRes) { … }```
And I should just be able to do something like this?
```@Composable fun myComponent() {
  WorkflowViewStub()
}```
(<https://github.com/square/workflow/pull/703/commits/6fc61720a281055ee410ad41566546a640481661#diff-f3d0030f5e5c4962c8c2e1b4d5300553R47-R54>)

Great question… A couple of things to understand here:

1. IDE support for these calls is really lacking. If it is intercepted successfully, it should not show up as red/unresolved, but you will also not (yet) be able to “command-click” to go to declaration of the call. That’s the “quick test” to figure out if it worked without doing a full compile.
2. Right now for views it targets constructors of the form `(Context) -&gt; T` where `T: View`.
3. Properties (and getters/setters from java) will be resolvable as `name = T`  in the argument list of the call. ALL parameters must be named in order for this to work. For example, `TextView(text="hello world")` works because of `setText(String)`  and `TextView(text=R.string.foo)` works because of the setter overload.

i actually haven’t checked to see if the `@JvmOverloads` constructor like you showed will get properly intercepted. if it’s not working, try splitting it out and creating one with just `Context`

I simplified the constructor to only take a `Context`, and it compiles but i’m getting a runtime crash: `IllegalStateException: Could not convert WorkflowViewStub to an Emittable`. `ViewComposer` seems to be trying to find an adapter for my view, but the `adapters` list is empty.

in order to use views, you will want to start off compose using `setViewContent` instead of `setContent`

at some point we will create ways to easily switch between the two. right now it is a bit of a pain

I’m using `setViewContent` on a `FrameLayout`.

so the error above means that you’re trying to add a `WorkFlowViewStub` as a child to a ComponentNode

are you trying to wrap this with other compose UI composables like `Row`/`Column?`

I’ll shelve this project for now. Thanks again for your help!