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How are devs with multiplatform Compose projects dealing with the current lack of `@Preview`. I'm a bit confused why there isn't more noise regarding it, because it means one of: a) nobody's using JB Compose to even notice (don't want to believe this one) or b) there's a workaround that I've missed or c) Devs are generally more patient than me and just quietly waiting until it works again :relaxed:?

<@UE206C71V> thanks but that's not quite what I meant...

_Android_ preview doesn't work from the JB Compose (Multiplatform) artifact and hasn't done for several releases now. While there's a workaround for this, the workaround then prevents you from using Desktop preview.

In summary, for _Multiplatform development purposes_, Preview is completely broken and I'm curious why we haven't been seeing more noise about that.

I am using preview in both, desktop and android in multiplatform, the only problem I have is I can’t have preview composables in common so I have to have one in each source set, jvmMain and androidMain

Well that's really good news to me, if you confirm that's working, because I haven't been able to make it work.

I think you only need to add the google preview dependencies for the android source set and the jetbrains one for the jvm source set

When I did that I got duplicate class definition errors.

I'll revisit it, now that you've said it can work.

<https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C01D6HTPATV/p1628262944174700|https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C01D6HTPATV/p1628262944174700>

I know the `-beta09` workaround for Android; the issue was I couldn't configure both `-beta09` *and* Desktop simutaneously without getting Duplicate Class errors, even when configuring the only top-level projects and not a common module :thinking_face:

I must have missed something... trying again.

Not sure about beta09, I am using jetbrains alphas and google stables 