anyone else see what I am seeing in Android Studio...

# random

[agrosner]

anyone else see what I am seeing in Android Studio (maybe intellij too) on a regular basis on a really large project with 200+ modules - when there are symbols not imported in the file, the file refuses to syntax highlight or update until either:
a. You build the project to surface the actual errors
b. fix the imports
? pretty frustrating to see on a regular basis

[agrosner]

for example, RexAction is not imported and thus syntax highlighting completely breaks

[kenkyee]

Invalidate caches and restart usually fixes that for me FWIW. Still annoying to need to do it though.

[agrosner]

do you think its related to ktlint, detekt, or other plugins as well? or a kotlin issue. i.e. did you see this at twit?

[kenkyee]

yep, saw this at Twitter sporadically too (1000+ modules)...invalidate caches generally would fix it.
Plugins definitely slow down the UI..e.g., we disabled the dagger graph plugin because it slugged and blocked code highlighting from happening.

[agrosner]

ohh maybe thats the issue. if it is the dagger plugin

[kenkyee]

We had our own DI system so it was irrelevant. But it was definitely slow as hell...

[agrosner]

could be why app component, and fragment binding modules are unbelievably slow even on an M1… ill try that suggestion.

[Colton Idle]

This happens to me in fairly small projects too FWIW

[agrosner]

Do you have the dagger plugin active?

[Colton Idle]

like gradle plugin or Intellij plugin?

[agrosner]

Intellij

[agrosner]

I wonder if the kotlin front end compiler (?) is choking or the ide plug-ins that manipulate the state of code for syntax highlighting is what is causing it

[agrosner]

Or it runs in same process loop causing syntax highlighting to get paused