Add Android preview to android-ios compose template

[gastsail]

Describe the bug
I'm trying to preview my composables on the android side to see what I'm doing before compiling.

I have added the preview tooling lib to the androidMain

And then used the @Preview annotation on my androidmain package inside my shared folder

I cannot even see the preview icon on the top right corner to see the composable preview

This is my setup

Affected platforms
Select one of the platforms below:

• All
• iOS (we don't support Preview on iOS, @dima-avdeev-jb )
• Android

Versions

• Kotlin version*: 1.9.0
• Compose Multiplatform version*: 0.6.1
• OS version(s)* (required for Desktop and iOS issues):
• OS architecture (x86 or arm64):
• JDK (for desktop issues): corretto-17

Expected behavior
I should be able to see the preview

[mazunin-v-jb]

Hello! Thanks for the issue.
Could you please provide info about the affected platform? We don't have a working preview on iOS target yet.
And could you check again your Compose Multiplatform version?

[gastsail]

Hey how are you thanks for your reply, compose plugin version is 0.6.1, I have also tried downgrading jdk to 11 , 16 and still the same.

Im trying only to run this on the Android side, thanks.

[mazunin-v-jb]

Thank you for providing information. Could you please try to create a new Android project and check if it works in it?
And if so, could you please check how you connect artifacts and dependencies in androidApp/build.gradle.kts in both your projects?

[gastsail]

Hey @mazunin-v-jb I have used this template https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-ios-android-template#readme I did not start it from scratch, surprisingly I cannot find any example that uses the @Preview annotation, is just me or for now is it having issues ?

If you go to -> https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/blob/master/examples/README.md in any of these examples I cannot find the @Preview annotation on the androidMain folders , I assume that all the views are visualized on runtime.

[mazunin-v-jb]

That's correct, that template doesn't have a preview setting for Android. We're planning to fix this later.

[gastsail]

Thanks a lot, is there any workaround I can do on that template to be able to use the preview ?

[mazunin-v-jb]

Unfortunately, I can't provide a workaround for now. We'll try to fix it in the future. Please stay tuned, we'll inform here when we fix.

[gastsail]

Thanks a lot @mazunin-v-jb , I will be waiting and trying out new things, will close this for now :)