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I’m using Android Studio with Jetpack Compose, and I often use the “Find in Files” feature (Cmd + Shift + F / Ctrl + Shift + F / clicking in a function/class to see the usages) to search for code ...
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I'm learning Jetpack Compose and working with Android Studio's preview feature. When I hover over a Text composable that has padding applied, the layout bounds (blue outline) only show the text ...
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Recently, I stumbled upon what seems to be a strange glitch in Android Studio. No matter what kind of Kotlin file I create (object, interface, class—anything), the IDE always opens it as if it ...
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I am using a Google font. I downloaded the ttf files and properly set the FontFamily and Typography. Preview are correctly showing the fonts, but they are distorted. They seem pixelated. My goal is to ...
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I have followed https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/compose-screenshot-testing and can't seem to get any version outside of 0.0.1-alpha01 to work. With alpha02 and higher I am seeing: An ...
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I just started exploring android compose preview screenshot testing. In my first attempting running the tests via ./gradlew updateDebugScreenshotTest I got the following error Cannot update reference ...
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I have the issue that whenever I have a multi-module project, all Jetpack Compose UI previews except for the ones in the app module display an additional TopAppBar with the text androidx.compose.ui....
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Using WindowsInsets(android tutorial) in app with jetpack compose, doesn't show on @Preview. Here my Modifier.windowInsetsPadding(WindowInsets.safeContent) does not apply as Preview. If I replace ...
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I'm currently improving previews in my android app (which is using mostly jetpack compose). When i only use @Preview(showBackground=true) the background color of the preview defaults to almost-black, ...
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I'm facing an issue when trying to use the Jetpack Compose @Preview annotation in my Android project. Whenever I try to preview a Composable function, I encounter a java.lang.StackOverflowError. Here ...
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I'm just learnig Compose. I want to make Compose Preview background color setting the same as run app mode. What is wrong with my code? Preview code @Preview(showBackground = true) @Composable fun ...
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I have a fragment which has an injected variable timeZoneId, which now I have to pass to a composable. @Inject lateinit var timeZoneId: ZoneId In Composable I have a preview, how can I add this to ...
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I started migrate our code to Compose and have problem with @Preview. For example, when I use modifier.fillMaxWidth() without default param "fraction = 1f" I have render problem java.lang....
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My app has a module that uses Jetpack Compose and another non-Android (plain Java Library) module with some Java classes. I ran into an issue where Jetpack Compose preview is failing with a render ...
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During android jetpack compose development I use this code to see some preview result: GlideImage( imageModel = { imageUrl }, modifier = Modifier.aspectRatio(0.8f), previewPlaceholder = R....
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Consider a Composable screen with the following parameters: @Composable fun PurchaseSubscriptionScreenContent( availableSubscriptions: List<ProductDetails>, selectedSubscription: ...
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Sometimes when I use a string resource in my composable, the preview will show the wrong string. It always works fine for literal strings, only string resources are wrong. The bug isn't consistent. ...
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I am using Jetpack Compose and noticed that the preview is not shown. I read articles like this, but it seems my problem has a different root cause. Even I added defaults to all parameters in the ...
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Like below are two functions @Composable private fun WaterCounter(modifier: Modifier = Modifier) { val count = 0 Text( text = "You've had $count glasses of water", ...
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What I have : I have a compose class that has a button I want to see the preview in the design view Issue I am facing : For the click How to pass as an object on the line I have marked in code Is ...
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I use Coil to load .svg resources from the web, for example: @Composable fun Widget(modifier: Modifier = Modifier) { AsyncImage( modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(), model = ...
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I want to use Jetpack Compose in my App. I am already using Koin for DI. Because I have a lot of convenience methods in my BaseFragment I want to inherit from it and build the corresponding view with ...
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Android Studio Chipmunk 2021.2.1; Compose Version = '1.1.1'; Gradle Version 7.4.2; Kotlin 1.6.10; Up to one point, everything was working. Then this error appeared and the preview stopped working ...
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Simple scenario, I have a vector drawable in my res folder, which I wish to access in a Compose Preview. Actually, it is a Canvas that draws the vector, and so, I use a painter (a vector painter, to ...
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I've recently got an error preventing any Jetpack Compose previews from being displayed as follows: Failed to instantiate one or more classes The following classes could not be instantiated: -...
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I have a multi module app where I recently began implementing Jetpack Compose. I defined some composables to be shared by different modules. I put those in another library module and imported in ...
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I am bootstrapping a new app with Jetpack Compose and Material 3. I've created a bunch of new apps lately with this configuration, so this problem has me stuck: I cannot get the IDE's compose previews ...
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Problem description I'm trying to see a preview of my AlertDialog in compose but I'm not getting it, the preview doesn't render it even though it doesn't show any error. I'm sure the problem is only ...
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I built an app from the Android Studio template using the new Compose feature (official docs). The Preview looks like the following: However, when I run the application, it looks like this (text is ...
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I have a MainScreen composable being injected with a viewmModel using hilt. @Composable fun MainScreen( viewModel: MainScreenViewModel = hiltViewModel() ) {} The problem is that I cannot use this ...
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What are widthDp and heightDp as a @Preview parameter? 【My environment】 Android Studio Arctic Fox | 2020.3.1 Patch3 build on October 1, 2021 Gradle: 7.0.2 AGP: 7.0.3 androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling-...
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I'm trying to use the Modifier.blur feature of Jetpack Compose for a project for work and it seems to not do anything in the preview. I'm using it like this: Column(modifier = Modifier .blur(30.dp)...
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So it seems like the recommended thing in Jetpack Compose is to hoist state out of your composables, to make them stateless, reusable, and testable, and allow using them in previews easily. So instead ...
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Rendering the Jetpack Compose Preview fails when we have some code calling LocalDate.now() from it. We have tried setting a locale on the preview but that does not help, and we have not found any ...
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With the first patch for AS Arctic Fox Jetpack Compose previews stopped working. I'm getting this error for all previews - even older ones, which worked fine a while back: android.content.res....
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I am developing an app using Jetpack compose and have a problem with fonts import during Jetpack preview. Preview is empty and show an error (Render problem): Font resource ID #0x... cannot be ...
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I have the following composable function that creates a TopAppBar. The preview shows the bar just fine, but can I get the menu to expand in the preview as well? @Composable @Preview fun AppBarTop(...
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Taking first steps in Jetpack Compose, which is quite amazing except one annoying issue. I have a constant set of previews: Normal, Dark and RTL: @Preview( name = "Normal", group = &...
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I use Compose with AS Arctic Fox v2020.3.1. When I update the code, the preview does not render in real-time. AS show the message "The preview is out of date" and I must click "Build &...
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I am unable to preview anything in Studio, extending to something as simple as a Text. I get a "Render Error", revealing this stack trace. java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: com.<...
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I'm using Android Studio Bumblebee 2021.1.1 Canary 3 + Compose 1.0-rc02, and there seems to be no easy way to force landscape mode for a preview, which includes using resources (in particular ...
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Let's consider the following @Composable functions: @Composable fun WelcomeScreen() { ... ButtonTheme { Button(...) {...} } } @Composable @Preview fun MockWelcome() { AppTheme ...
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I followed the official guide to create viewModel instance and it works perfectly. However, when there is any viewModel in the @composable, Android Studio isn't able to render the preview and with the ...
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