Jetpack Compose

Demonstration of an issue trying to render a preview in Jetpack Compose without the activity artifact

Mar 16, 2022 1 min read

Demonstration of an issue trying to render a preview in Jetpack Compose without the activity artifact

Preview Bug Sample

Open the app in Android Studio (used Bumblebee 2021.1.1).
Open the CustomButton file in the design-system module.
You will see the preview window on the right, but we are unable to render anything unless we
add the activity dependency.
That dependency is in the design-system/build.gradle file you can uncomment it to verify.

Here is what I see:

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