I'm going back into my old projects and trying to ...

# compose-desktop

[Colton Idle]

I'm going back into my old projects and trying to add @Preview since I was able to get it to work now in plain old Android Compose projects.

But now I have a jetbrains compose project, and I have an androidMain folder that I'd like to be able to use @Preview.

Then in my commoncomposables module build.gradle.kts I have

named("androidMain") {
  dependencies {
    implementation("androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling-preview:1.1.0-beta01")
    implementation("androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling:1.1.0-beta01")

But as you can see, the IDE doesn't give me the code/design/split pane. Does anyone know if I should be able to see that pane so I can have previews without deploying to device?

Note: I don't care about previewing my desktop composables or anything, I just want my androidMain folder to be able to preview as you would in a normal android compose app.

[Colton Idle]

What I'm looking for is being able to see this in AS, but I don't

[Javier]

preview only works in jvmMain and/or androidMain

[Javier]

there is a open issue about this one in compose-jb

[Javier]

in other words, you have to set the function which has the @Preview inside jvmMain and/or androidMain

[Colton Idle]

Yeah. I'm in androidMain, but that's not working.

[Colton Idle]

Repro'd it not working in the jb compose template

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues/1327

[Chris Sinco [G]]

If you are using IntelliJ, I’m not sure the same split view is available since that is specifically implemented that way for design tools in Android Studio

[Chris Sinco [G]]

If you are using AS, I don’t know if the project structure is supported which maybe is why it’s not showing up. If you have a link to an example project, we can take a look on the Studio side

[Chris Sinco [G]]

@nosuid might have more insight

[Colton Idle]

Yeah, I have a sample (which just so happens to be the multiplatform-template in the jb compose repo.

Created an issue here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/204791546