I kinda recall someone talking about how in a text block, you can ask it to prefer to be laid out wi...

# compose

[Stylianos Gakis]

I kinda recall someone talking about how in a text block, you can ask it to prefer to be laid out with all lines having an equal-ish words on each line in case the text goes over to second line. So something like

This is some long text where
it gets cut off somewhere

Instead of

This is some long text where it gets cut off
somewhere

But I really can’t find something here, am I imagining it perhaps 🤔

[Oleksandr Balan]

Maybe it were you 10 months ago? 😅
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1661331116936149

[Stylianos Gakis]

Aha I think on TextStyle I see a parameter called LineBreak which can be configured to have a pre-defined “Heading” style, which I think more or less does what I want. Found here. I will go with it and see how it works

[Stylianos Gakis]

Damn I can’t believe I didn’t remember or even just find the question that I myself asked here 😵‍💫
It does kinda explain though how I sort of found my way around to the correct API, I think it was in a place in my brain, hidden very well.
Thanks a lot, and I need to check if something is wrong with my memory after this, I don’t know how I will recover from such a blow 😂

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

☝🏻 me after every time I forget an actor’s name

[Siyamed]

Copying from whats new in compose march 2023 blog post:

Configure line breaking behavior using TextStyle.lineBreak. Use built-in semantic configurations like Heading, Paragraph, or Simple, or construct your own LineBreak configuration with the desired Strategy, Strictness, and WordBreak values.

Add hyphenation support using TextStyle.hyphens.

[Siyamed]

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/whats-new-in-jetpack-compose-march-23-relea
se.html?m=1

[Stylianos Gakis]

Yep thanks for the link! So far with the things I was testing, Heading is what I wanted in this use case, so nice to have these sane defaults to pick from before having to play with the individual parameters ourselves. Super nice API I love it, great job on it!