Question to Google is it possible to make ` compose ui ui to

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Question to Google is it possible to make ` compose ui ui tooling data` available for desktop I m experimenting with some tooling kinda in app inspector and would like to process `CompositionData` and it seems doing it via `SlotTree` is the best way of doing so

jim · Answer

I can t think of any technical nor political reasons why `ui tooling data` couldn t be an mpp module The fact that it is android only is probably just an oversight when the module was created Happy to accept such a contribution or we can try doing that change on our end With regards to releasing it for non android we google only publish the android binaries at the moment Publishing of the module for desktop will require pulling that change into the jetbrains compose jb repository and then publishing a build I d reach out to < Igor Demin> for this

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orangy · Answer

Oh wow that was fast rocket Thanks Jim

orangy · Answer

While we are here who can I talk to about some details in group tree building how to process it etc I ve found yet another layer `LayoutInspectorTree` and around which transforms Group tree and does some View stuff so it s not MPP either probably by design

orangy · Answer

< jim> should it be moved out of block then in `ui tooling`

jim · Answer

Why would it be moved out of the block We build androidx in two modes multiplatform and non multiplatform The non multiplatform variant is the one we publish and we build multiplatform as a sanity check The two variants are configured independently but have the same semantic effect I m not sure why you re looking at the non multi platform block That same dependency is also defined in the `androidMain dependencies` block below for use with multiplatform build I m not sure I understand can you elaborate on your question

orangy · Answer

Sorry it was a bit late yesterday so I didn t look at it with due attention The problem is that in multiplatform setup ui tooling data is not a dependency of ui tooling And thus when depending on ui tooling SlotTree and related is not available Should I be depending on ui tooling data directly or is it considered implementation detail and thus dependency should be added to desktopMain section of multiplatform setup of ui tooling

jim · Answer

`ui tooling` does have a multiplatform dependency on `ui tooling data` in the `androidMain dependencies` block

jim · Answer

Are we looking at the same version of the same file

jim · Answer

jim · Answer

Presumably you would want to add that same dependency for Desktop or move it to a `jvmMain dependencies` block or move it to the `commonMain dependencies` block depending on where you need it Jvm only common etc

orangy · Answer

Yep sorry for not being clear I meant `commonMain depenencies` because eventually we ll need it for CfD CfW etc Can you please move it

jim · Answer

I can <https android review googlesource com c platform frameworks support + 2172926> but have we verified that 1 the change does what we need 2 that s the only bug change remaining related to this module For changes like this I m thinking it might be better worth making the changes in the downstream Compose Multiplatform repository the one Igor maintains verify we re happy with the fixes and everything is working and then upstream those changes That allows you to iterate faster without putting Googlers in your critical path

orangy · Answer

Thanks I will discuss it with Igor and see how we can optimize things here