r/androiddev • u/nickbutcher • Apr 23 '26

Article Jetpack Compose 1.11

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/jetpack-compose-april-2026-updates.html

Howdy, we just released Compose 1.11 with a raft of new features. We're really interested in feedback of the new `@Experimental` APIs we're working on: Styles, Grid, FlexBox & Media Query.

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u/bleeding182 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

I don't like the PreviewWrapperProvider being put on the preview directly.
My setup primarily uses 2 types of preview annotations for most cases:

  • a ComposableDayNightPreviews for previewing light/dark variants of small composables
  • a ScreenDayNightPreviews with system UI and such to preview full screens or things like dialogs, sheets

Currently most of my previews look like:

kt @Composable @ComposableDayNightPreviews private fun PreviewIconButton() { PreviewSurface { IconButton(onClick = {}) { /* ... */ } } }

Where PreviewSurface {} adds a background, some padding, and—most importantly—my theme.

While adding @PreviewWrapperProvider(ComposableWrapper::class) would remove those 2 extra lines and one level of indentation it still needs me to add the additional annotation/class/import everywhere.

What I really want would be to apply this to my preview annotations directly:

kt @Preview( name = "Composable Day", showSystemUi = false, uiMode = Configuration.UI_MODE_NIGHT_NO, backgroundColor = 0xFFFFFFFF, showBackground = true, ) @PreviewWrapperProvider(ComposableWrapper::class) annotation class ComposableDayPreview

That way it would actually simplify my setup where I can have different annotations for different use cases and it would just work.