Layout Inspector doesn't work with Jetpack Compose

Question

Layout Inspector doesn't work with Jetpack Compose and the hint is

Compose inspection unavailable. Could not determine the version of the androidx.compose.ui:ui artifact. Was the version file excluded?

I have no idea how to fix it

Answer 1

You probably have excluded the version file as the warning says. Version file is contained under META-INF folder. It should be something like META-INF/*.version. If you have something like below try removing it.

packagingOptions {
        resources {
            excludes += "META-INF/*.version"
            excludes += "META-INF/**"               
        }
    }

Refer to this link for more details.

Note: If you are using different build variants, remove it from just debug side.