Has anyone been able to successfully use FlowRow a...

# compose-android

[Colton Idle]

Has anyone been able to successfully use FlowRow and alignment? Seems like it's not possible to vertically center items in a flow row due to FlowRowScopeInstance being private.

[Rebecca Franks]

Are you not able to use Modifier.align(Alignment.Center) ?

[Colton Idle]

Seems not?

[Colton Idle]

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[Colton Idle]

I'm using 1.5.0-beta01 from yest

[Colton Idle]

If I try Center then I get this

[Francesc]

you are applying the Alignment to the FlowRow which implies its parent must be a Box - is that the case?
You can apply Alignment to the children of FlowRow

[Colton Idle]

Interesting. I basically have

Text, Icon, Icon, Icon, Icon, Icon, Icon, Icon and the text is not in line with the icons... so lets see if that works. lol

I'll just set the alignment on the text? That should do?

[Francesc]

let me change one to a Text

[Rebecca Franks]

Yeah you need to put the alignment modifier on the children

[Francesc]

works the same regardless of the child

[Colton Idle]

oh wow. so weird to me. ive been using compose for like 2 years. lol

[Colton Idle]

and alignment of children was always possible from the parent i feel

[Colton Idle]

like. if i just wanted every child to be centered vertically, then setting it on the layout makes sense to me.

[Colton Idle]

but. if this lets me ship this feature... i will be soooo happy

[Colton Idle]

AHH. that worked!

[Colton Idle]

thank you all so much.

[Rebecca Franks]

Yeah this changed from previous release due to not wanting to confuse verticalArrangement parameter with verticalAlignment parameter, so verticalAlignment was removed in favour of individual modifiers on each item.

[Colton Idle]

intereseting. i read that release note... but it did not seem like individual modifiers on each item was required