Jetpack Compose: The layout inspector is not showing the menu for recomposition counts

Question

Android Studio Bumblebee Patch 3

From this page, it says that I can see recomposition counts: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/tooling#recomposition-counts

It does not show the menu option to me. Only the device name and "Stop inspector"

Aiglet

Have you tried the current stable version (Chipmunk)? – Dacia

Same thing. I think I am missing something to enable that menu. – Aiglet

Do you have the right ui-tooling and ui-tooling-preview dependencies mentioned at the top of developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/tooling? – Dacia

Yes, compose version 1.1.1 – Aiglet

Answer 1

You just need to enable this option in View Options

Billiebilling

Answer 2

This is only available in Electric Eel at the moment:

"For even more cutting edge features, you can take a sneak peek at the Android Studio Electric Eel release in the Canary channel [...] These features will be promoted to more stable channels once we have your feedback and make improvements, so please try them out." Source

Farinose

They mention EE for Live Edit in the Tooling page, but they don't for Layout Inspector. I will wait for a stable release, I am just beginning my project. Thanks and enjoy your 50 points :-) – Aiglet

Ok, thanks :-), I'm using the recomposition counts on EE and it works nicely. I have actually sorted out an infinite recomposition loop that I was not aware of... I recommend it! – Farinose

@CodePoet may i know which version of EE you are using? i still can't make it appear – Uird

@Uird I am currently on Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 Canary 5 – Farinose

@CodePoet i successfully make it show up when i open google's sample, but when it comes to my working project that contains more than 30 sub-modules, it doesn't work. not sure what happens 🥲 – Uird

@Uird Sorry, I don't know. Maybe it's a bug. But I would suggest you open your own question in case someone can help. – Farinose

Answer 3

I got the same issue, and found the official site has noted that, after upgrade compose version and use Android Studio Preview version, it works for me:

To get started, make sure your app is using Compose 1.2.0-alpha03 or higher. Then deploy your app as you normally would.

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