I have an address text consisting of a street part...

# compose

[Lukasz Kalnik]

I have an address text consisting of a street part, a comma and zip code/city part (with possible city districts).

Some street 1, 10000 München / Altstadt-Nord

I want to display it in one line, if it fits. However when it doesn't fit, I want that it breaks at the first comma, so that e.g. the zip code is not in the "street" line, and separate from the city line.
I don't want to use non-breaking spaces, because then if the zip code/city part is also longer than one line, it gets broken in the middle of the words.

[Lukasz Kalnik]

I guess I have to somehow measure before displaying, if the text is going to fit in one line and then decide it it should be one or two lines.

[MiSikora]

You can use TextMeasurer

[Lukasz Kalnik]

Thanks

[Lukasz Kalnik]

It always returns 1 line, even if the text is displayed in multiple lines:

val textMeasurer = rememberTextMeasurer()

            val lineCount = textMeasurer.measure(
                text = formattedAddress,
                style = MaterialTheme.typography.bodyLarge,
            ).lineCount

[Lukasz Kalnik]

I suppose textMeasurer.measure() also needs constraints from the layout.

[dorche]

Yep by default the maxWidth constraint is Infinity which will always give you 1 line

[Lukasz Kalnik]

I'm trying to measure the parent width in onGloballyPositioned() but it also returns infinity, I guess it's too early

[dorche]

If you're set on using TextMeasurer and something simpler like https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/text/style-paragraph#insert-line doesn't work, you could wrap your text in BoxWithConstraints however beware that this uses SubcomposeLayout so there's a cost to it

[MiSikora]

The simplest solution is to wrap whatever you need in BoxWithConstraints. BoxWithConstraintsScope has constraints property available.

[MiSikora]

But, yeah. As mentioned above there is a cost associated with subcomposition.

[MiSikora]

Though I probably wouldn't worry too much about it in your case

[dorche]

I'd worry if this is displaying tons of addresses in a LazyColumn (i.e. for address lookup feature)

[Lukasz Kalnik]

This is a LazyColumn with up to a few thousand addresses...

[MiSikora]

Even that might not be a big problem due to laziness. It doesn't render all of them at once.

[MiSikora]

It's best to test it and see if performance issues occur.

[Lukasz Kalnik]

Hmm, suddenly onGloballyPositioned() started delivering the correct width.

[Lukasz Kalnik]

Looks like onGloballyPositioned() not working was an Android Studio preview problem.