Is it normal for the Compose preview to take around a minute or more to render? Is that normal? The associated gradle build completes in 6 seconds

How complex is the preview? Are you passing in any ViewModel or other code that’s running, or is it just a dumb view?

it’s a dumb view

What Android Studio version and AGP version in root level build.gradle?

giraffe 4/ agp

7.4.1

Have you tried latest stable Eel?

not yet. would you say that taking a minute + is abnormal, given the gradle build is so fast?

I’d imagine. My previews are pretty quick, but it could also be device. I’m on a specced out macbook pro with M1.

same

I’d possibly try out Eel and file a bug report if it’s slow too.

I have live preview off bc I was noticing poor performance in the IDE for typing when I had it on I assume this is the control for live updates

Yes. I’d expect it to take a while to render the first time, but not after that.

Rendering happens very quickly for me in Flamingo

same issue in giraffe, on large project with many modules (200+) for private previews in smaller independent modules. takes over a minute, longer than the actual app compile from cache with configuration cache.

@agrosner does it only happen for you in Giraffe?

its been happening for every version in past 6+ months, i figure it may not be fully optimized for large projects

My project has 150+ modules, but only a handful of them have previews.

same. not many.

I noticed a big speed improvement for Preview with Patch 1 of AS Eel