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# compose-android

[dave08]

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[Sergey Y.]

https://m3.material.io/components/progress-indicators/overview

This is the squiggly slider from Material 3 Expressive, and according to the documentation, it should already be available. Here’s some documentation on how it should be defined: https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/material3/package-summary#LinearWavyProgressIndicator[…]androidx.compose.ui.unit.Dp)

[Sergey Y.]

So, it is not a slider, it is a Linear Wavy Progress Indicator

[Sergey Y.]

https://m3.material.io/blog/building-with-m3-expressive
Looks like M3 Expressive Sliders not available yet

[dave08]

Would there be a simple way to turn it into a simple slider?

[dave08]

Just track progress and change position

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

I think it is available: https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/material3/package-summary#Slider(androidx.compose.mat[…].Function1,kotlin.Function1)

[dave08]

That was added in 1.2.0 not in 1.4.0 alpha where expressive was added... @Csaba Szugyiczki

[Csaba Szugyiczki]

I think the Slider is not that new of a concept. The difference between the original Material 3 slider and the Expressive Slider is that the Expressive one supports dynamic themes better as I can tell from the docs. Maybe I don’t see why is it so important to use an Expressive Slider?

[dave08]

It looks a bit better in our app... we switched from material2 where the slider was a line with a dot... and here we get a thick line with a crossline that doesn't fit too well with our other components...

[dave08]

I care less about the wavy line... but it might have been a nice touch...