title: Gradle cannot find Android Compose Compiler
body: <p>I am very perplexed by this issue. I have the following lines in my gradle file:</p>
  <pre><code>implementation &quot;androidx.compose.runtime:runtime:1.0.0-alpha04&quot;
  implementation &quot;androidx.compose.compiler:compiler:1.0.0-alpha04&quot;
  implementation &quot;androidx.compose.runtime:runtime-rxjava2:1.0.0-alpha04&quot;
  </code></pre>
  <p>However, when I build, I get the following error:</p>
  <pre><code>Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app-name-omitted:prepareDebugKotlinCompileTask'.
  &gt; Could not resolve all task dependencies for configuration ':app-name-omitted:kotlin-extension'.
     &gt; Could not find androidx.compose:compose-compiler:1.0.0-alpha04.
       Searched in the following locations:
         - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/androidx/compose/compose-compiler/1.0.0-alpha04/compose-compiler-1.0.0-alpha04.pom
         - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/androidx/compose/compose-compiler/1.0.0-alpha04/compose-compiler-1.0.0-alpha04.pom
         - https://jcenter.bintray.com/androidx/compose/compose-compiler/1.0.0-alpha04/compose-compiler-1.0.0-alpha04.pom
       Required by:
           project :app-name-omitted
  
  Possible solution:
   - Declare repository providing the artifact, see the documentation at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/declaring_repositories.html
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am confused by this, because the compiler DOES exist in Google's repo: <a href="https://maven.google.com/web/index.html#androidx.compose.compiler:compiler" rel="noreferrer">https://maven.google.com/web/index.html#androidx.compose.compiler:compiler</a></p>
  <p>I can post more information if necessary, but I wanted to keep it simple. Even if compose is set up completely incorrectly, why would it not find the POM file?</p>