Is it possible to work on compose desktop through Android Studio? I'm trying to setup a hello world ...

# compose-desktop

[natario1]

Is it possible to work on compose desktop through Android Studio? I'm trying to setup a hello world app but running into several issues like this one . I think I should specify the correct JDK but Android Studio does not seem to have the handy JDK version dropdown in Project Structure.

[Olivier Patry]

That what I do, with Android Studio 4.1 or Canary

[Olivier Patry]

you can check the Gradle setup here: https://github.com/opatry/compose-tiles-anim

I think I used this from inspiration of https://github.com/joreilly/PeopleInSpace

[natario1]

Did you have to specify JDK 11 somewhere? I can't see anything special in your configuration

[Olivier Patry]

I did in my Android Studio launch configuration by hand

[Olivier Patry]

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[natario1]

I see, thanks! Didn't fix my issues unfortunately. Window function is still red because it can't find BufferedImage in the classpath, running the configuration does nothing, I also get Caused by: org.jetbrains.skiko.LibraryLoadException: Cannot find libskiko-macos-x64.dylib.sha256, proper native dependency missing. when manually calling the run task. Big mess

[Olivier Patry]

Did you use kotlin(jvm) plugin and implementation(compose.desktop.currentOs) dependency in your app module?

[natario1]

Thanks, the currentOs helped! Now I can manually call the run task and the app runs. Still weird IDE behavior, Window is red and creating a run configuration like yours does nothing

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Android Studio does not seem to have the handy JDK version dropdown in Project Structure.

This setting moved in Arctic Fox

[olonho]

AS support for Kotlin multiplatform have to be improved somewhat, so better use IDEA for now

[Olivier Patry]

@Chris Sinco [G] you can have JDK version dropdown from project structure in 4.1.3
Right click > Open Module Settings > Project Settings : Project > Project SDK : Edit
From here you can choose among available one or add one (+ button) from download or disk

[Olivier Patry]

(Or more directly Open Module Settings > Platform Settings : SDKs)

[Olivier Patry]

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[natario1]

Yeah can't see this ^ in Arctic Fox. Might also depend on whether an Android module is detected, not sure. Anyway I was able to use the setting shown by Chris above. Though it doesn't solve Window being red

[Colton Idle]

Unfortunately having compose for Android and desktop is in a weird state right now.

Enabling compose in an existing Android app pushes you to use Gradle 7, and agp 7+, but Compose desktop does not work.

Hope that compose, jb compose, Gradle 7, ago 7, and kotlin 1.5 all play well soon.

[Javier]

@Colton Idle you have to use Jetbrains compose in the android app, so you can use AGP 4

[Colton Idle]

@Javier yeah but I want to use agp 7 and gradle 7 because of some of the improvements.

[Javier]

You can use Gradle 7 with AGP 4. I think the real problem is the binary compatibility, hope it is resolved soon