I just installed Electric Eel to give Live Edit a ...

# android-studio

[Joseph Hawkes-Cates]

I just installed Electric Eel to give Live Edit a try today and it’s not working very well for me. Most of my changes result in the indicator in the top right just showing “loading…” and the updates may or may not actually update after a while. I’m seeing an exception on startup which seems related (see 🧵). Any common known issues that might resolve what I’m seeing?

[Joseph Hawkes-Cates]

com.intellij.diagnostic.PluginException: Cannot create extension (class=com.android.tools.idea.initialization.ExpiredPreviewBuildCheck) [Plugin: org.jetbrains.android]
	at com.intellij.serviceContainer.ComponentManagerImpl.createError(ComponentManagerImpl.kt:946)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.impl.XmlExtensionAdapter.doCreateInstance(XmlExtensionAdapter.kt:71)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.impl.XmlExtensionAdapter.createInstance(XmlExtensionAdapter.kt:32)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.impl.ExtensionPointImpl.processAdapter(ExtensionPointImpl.java:474)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.impl.ExtensionPointImpl.processAdapters(ExtensionPointImpl.java:422)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.impl.ExtensionPointImpl.computeExtensionList(ExtensionPointImpl.java:251)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.impl.ExtensionPointImpl.getExtensionList(ExtensionPointImpl.java:245)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.ExtensionPointName.getExtensionList(ExtensionPointName.java:39)
	at org.jetbrains.android.AndroidStartupManager.runActivity$runAndroidStartupActivities(AndroidStartupManager.kt:32)
	at org.jetbrains.android.AndroidStartupManager.runActivity(AndroidStartupManager.kt:42)
	at com.intellij.ide.startup.impl.StartupManagerImpl.runStartupActivity(StartupManagerImpl.kt:311)
	at com.intellij.ide.startup.impl.StartupManagerImpl.runActivityAndMeasureDuration(StartupManagerImpl.kt:290)
	at com.intellij.ide.startup.impl.StartupManagerImpl.runActivityAndMeasureDuration$default(StartupManagerImpl.kt:285)
	at com.intellij.ide.startup.impl.StartupManagerImpl$runPostStartupActivities$1$2.run(StartupManagerImpl.kt:249)
	at com.intellij.openapi.project.DumbServiceImpl.doRun(DumbServiceImpl.java:398)
	at com.intellij.openapi.project.DumbServiceImpl.updateFinished(DumbServiceImpl.java:390)
	at com.intellij.openapi.project.TrackedEdtActivityService$TrackedEdtActivity.run(TrackedEdtActivityService.java:66)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.runWithWritingAllowed(TransactionGuardImpl.java:215)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.access$100(TransactionGuardImpl.java:22)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl$1.run(TransactionGuardImpl.java:197)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runIntendedWriteActionOnCurrentThread(ApplicationImpl.java:873)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl$3.run(ApplicationImpl.java:511)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.doRun(FlushQueue.java:69)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.runNextEvent(FlushQueue.java:112)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.flushNow(FlushQueue.java:42)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:313)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:776)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:727)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:721)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:85)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:746)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:885)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:740)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.lambda$dispatchEvent$6(IdeEventQueue.java:433)
	at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.computePrioritized(CoreProgressManager.java:802)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.lambda$dispatchEvent$7(IdeEventQueue.java:432)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.performActivity(TransactionGuardImpl.java:106)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.performActivity(IdeEventQueue.java:598)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.lambda$dispatchEvent$8(IdeEventQueue.java:430)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runIntendedWriteActionOnCurrentThread(ApplicationImpl.java:873)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:478)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:203)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.android.tools.idea.initialization.ExpiredPreviewBuildCheck PluginClassLoader(plugin=PluginDescriptor(name=Android, id=org.jetbrains.android, descriptorPath=plugin.xml, path=/Applications/Android Studio <http://Preview.app/Contents/plugins/android|Preview.app/Contents/plugins/android>, version=2022.1.1 Canary 5, package=null, isBundled=true), packagePrefix=null, instanceId=88, state=active)
	at com.intellij.serviceContainer.ComponentManagerImplKt.doLoadClass(ComponentManagerImpl.kt:1469)
	at com.intellij.serviceContainer.ComponentManagerImplKt.access$doLoadClass(ComponentManagerImpl.kt:1)
	at com.intellij.serviceContainer.ComponentManagerImpl.loadClass(ComponentManagerImpl.kt:836)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.impl.InterfaceExtensionImplementationClassResolver.resolveImplementationClass(InterfaceExtensionImplementationClassResolver.kt:24)
	at com.intellij.openapi.extensions.impl.XmlExtensionAdapter.doCreateInstance(XmlExtensionAdapter.kt:50)
	... 46 more

[Joseph Hawkes-Cates]

AS Build info:

Android Studio dev build
Build #AI-221.4165.146.2211.8713749, built on June 20, 2022
Runtime version: 11.0.13+0-b1751.21-8125866 x86_64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
macOS 12.4
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 4096M
Cores: 16
Registry:
    external.system.auto.import.disabled=true
    ide.text.editor.with.preview.show.floating.toolbar=false
    ide.instant.shutdown=false

Non-Bundled Plugins:
    <http://com.jetbrains.edu|com.jetbrains.edu> (2022.5-2022.1-343)

[Joseph Hawkes-Cates]

I’m using compose 1.2.0-rc01

[Joseph Hawkes-Cates]

I did enable live edit in the settings for previews only and not for device runs, FWIW

[Colton Idle]

previews IIRC still are slow. what you want is the device stuff. that stuff is like magic. lol

[Colton Idle]

i called it out that my Previews were still working slow and I think @Leland Richardson [G] said that previews are still expected to be slow, but the device/emulator stuff should be fast.

[Joseph Hawkes-Cates]

Ah ok, I’ll try that out. My previews were not just slow, though. They were basically not working and spinning for more than 10 minutes before I gave up on waiting.

[Chris Sinco [G]]

There are some bugs with the latest Preview in Electric Eel canaries that regressed since canary 1. They will be addressed though in the upcoming ones.

[Joseph Hawkes-Cates]

awesome, thanks! I’ll try out the next build.

[Joseph Hawkes-Cates]

What I did see of the previews working was awesome. Not having to wait for a full Gradle build for a lot of changes is going to be so nice