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Jetpack Compose Phone Screen Layout Preview

I'm new to Jetpack Compose. I created an app and as a preview I get only the views, in my case a text view.

How can I preview a screen and not an individual element?enter image description here

I want something like that:

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I am using Android Studio 2020.3.1 Canary 8.

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Valentin Avatar asked Mar 04 '21 11:03

Valentin


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1 Answers

Use the annotation @Preview(showSystemUi = true).

More info about the preview annotations here.

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Gabriele Mariotti Avatar answered Oct 02 '22 12:10

Gabriele Mariotti