Hello! How can I load font resource in non-composable code using compose resources?

# compose-desktop

[Mikolaj]

Hello! How can I load font resource in non-composable code using compose resources?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

there is no way. the compose resources is for the compose

if you would like to have resources in Kotlin multiplatform vote here: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-49981

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

But you can use the compose resources library to load a font as a byte array Res.readBytes("files/my-font.ttf") and then create a Font by

fun Font(
    identity: String,
    data: ByteArray,
    weight: FontWeight = FontWeight.Normal,
    style: FontStyle = FontStyle.Normal
): Font

Note: the method is not available on Android

[Mikolaj]

Thanks! Will try that 🙌

Is Android implementation impossible due to some platform specific issues or can I provide my own?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

No. Android doesn't have an API to load fonts by byte array

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

only by a path to assets resource

[Mikolaj]

Ok so that means I could store the byte array that I read with compose resources in some tmp file and then read it on android?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

no. assets is not available to write

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

if you have a font in the compose resource's dir then you can get a path as Res.getUri(path to font) and it will be an uri to assets on android

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

if you delete an uri prefix it will be an android specific path to assets

[Sean Proctor]

moko-resources is a pretty good library to handle this stuff for you. https://github.com/icerockdev/moko-resources