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:
-androidx.compose.ui.tooling.ComposeViewAdapter(Open Class, Show Exception, Clear Cache)
if this is an unexpected error you can also try to build the project, then manually refresh the layout
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class androidx.customview.poolingcontainer.PoolingContainer
at androidx.compose.ui.platform.ViewCompositionStrategy$DisposeOnDetachedFromWindowIfNotInPoolingContainer.installFor(ViewCompositionStrategy.android.kt:97)
at androidx.compose.ui.platform.AbstractComposeView.<init>(ComposeView.android.kt:123)
at androidx.compose.ui.platform.ComposeView.<init>(ComposeView.android.kt:392)
at androidx.compose.ui.platform.ComposeView.<init>(ComposeView.android.kt:388)
at androidx.compose.ui.tooling.ComposeViewAdapter.<init>(ComposeViewAdapter.kt:131)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490)
at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.createNewInstance(ViewLoader.java:339)
at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.loadClass(ViewLoader.java:176)
at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.loadView(ViewLoader.java:136)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.LayoutlibCallbackImpl.loadView(LayoutlibCallbackImpl.java:301)
at android.view.BridgeInflater.loadCustomView(BridgeInflater.java:417)
at android.view.BridgeInflater.loadCustomView(BridgeInflater.java:428)
at android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag(BridgeInflater.java:332)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:965)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:663)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:505)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.RenderSessionImpl.inflate(RenderSessionImpl.java:363)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.createSession(Bridge.java:436)
at com.android.tools.idea.layoutlib.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:121)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.createRenderSession(RenderTask.java:739)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.lambda$inflate$8(RenderTask.java:895)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderExecutor$runAsyncActionWithTimeout$2.run(RenderExecutor.kt:187)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
I have tried clearing the cache, rebuilding my project, cleaning my project as suggested but nothing has helped. I have had the same issue on both Android Studio Bumblebee 2021.2.1 Patch 3 as well as Chipmunk 2021.2.1 beta 4.
I am currently using version 1.1.1 for all my Compose related dependencies, but have tried downgrading and using newer versions but nothing helps.
implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.7.0'
implementation "androidx.compose.ui:ui:1.1.1"
implementation "androidx.compose.material:material:1.1.1"
implementation "androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling-preview:1.1.1"
implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-runtime-ktx:2.3.1'
implementation 'androidx.activity:activity-compose:1.1.1'
I think there are a couple of questions on here asking similar things, but they are all very old and use long outdated versions of Compose and Android Studio, so they are not very helpful.
2
Answers
It is a known bug: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/227767363
Google is currently working on a fix but there is already a workaround: add these dependencies to every module where you use the Compose preview:
If you have a common core/base/ui module, you can add it there and use
Api
instead ofImplementation
to avoid adding it to every module:Artifacts release reference
I was migrating one of my simple projects to compose and I faced this issue. Then I realised I forgot adding "androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling:1.1.1"
These are all of my dependencies for jetpack compose. Adding the last line did the trick. It took 20 min to realize this…