Is there a way to get the real, physical, bounding...

# compose

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Is there a way to get the real, physical, bounding box of a character or a line from a TextLayoutResult?
getBoundingBox returns

Rect.fromLTRB(0.0, 0.0, 15.4, 33.0)
Rect.fromLTRB(15.4, 0.0, 32.6, 33.0)
Rect.fromLTRB(32.6, 0.0, 48.3, 33.0)

on a string like abc, but obviously the real bounding box’s top of these charaters is not 0.

[romainguy]

To get pixel-level bounding boxes you have to go through the graphics APIs but I don’t know if the necessary APIs have been exposed in Compose. On Android you’d use a Paint object to measure the text or turn it into a Path and then get the path’s bounds.

[romainguy]

Having a text -> Path API in Compose would make sense as it can be used for many things including your use case

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

I see, thanks.

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

Something that could potentially be added to TextMeasurer or TextLayoutResult APIs, worth a feature request