Version 1.3.0-alpha02 (and some others) of compose was released ~2 days ago Interesting release notes according to... me • Added

drawText

extension function on

DrawScope

to provide a way to draw multi-styled text on composables and modifiers that operate on a

DrawScope

like

Canvas

and

drawBehind

. • Soft keyboard will now be hidden when a text field is disabled while focused. • When adding

InputEventChange

events to Velocity Tracker we will consider now deltas instead of positions, this will guarantee the velocity is correctly calculated for all cases even if the target element moves • When a scrollable has a focused child, it will now correctly scroll to keep the focused child in view when its size is decreased, even when the size is animated. • Fixed a crash where

TextField

is cleared and refilled while selection is active. • Fix

AnimatedVisibility

issue with

FloatingActionButton

in Scaffold • Re-added

ComposerKt.traceEventStart(Int, String)

for backwards compatibility (I wonder if this is related to the compose roadmap item "Composition Tracing") • Added a new property

PointerInputChange#pressure

to retrieve the pressure. • Added

rememberTextMeasurer

to easily create and remember

TextMeasurer

instances in composition. • Added

drawText

extension function on

DrawScope

to provide a way to draw multi-styled text on composables and modifiers that operate on a

DrawScope

like

Canvas

and

drawBehind

. • Introduce a new experimental API called

TextMeasurer

that enables arbitrary text layout computation that creates identical results to

BasicText

, independent from Compose runtime. • Add

mapTree

to

SlotTree.kt

. This allows tools to inspect the

SlotTree

without making an in memory copy first like asTree does. For the Layout Inspector this gives a performance improvement of about a factor 10. • Changed Compose Preview to be stored in binary output files, in order to allow developers to write and reuse

MultiPreview

annotations from libraries. • Bunch of M3 stuff https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/compose-material3#1.0.0-alpha15

Thanks for the summary! OMG

drawText

😍

Finally! That

VelocityTracker

problem was SO annonying

• Added a new property

PointerInputChange#pressure

to retrieve the pressure. Ohh sounds exciting! Now we only need someone on twitter to make something that uses something like this in SwiftUI for the compose community to jump in and provide a Compose alternative to it too :compose: