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

by androidexample

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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