Hi folks. Is there any composable or any custom solution to handle text line-break and hyphenation? ...

# compose

[tavoeh]

Hi folks. Is there any composable or any custom solution to handle text line-break and hyphenation? Any plans to support hyphenation in compose in the future?

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

I don't think there are any plans to support custom logic here. The line breaking in android (and compose) is very performance critical and is implemented in native code (c++ I think). But if you have a use case that you can't solve with stuff like it is now, definitely file a feature request!

[tavoeh]

Thanks @Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]. My use case is -Hyphenation for various languages-. Where can I file a feature request?

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

Tracker link is in the channel topic

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

What language(s) aren’t hyphenating correctly?

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

That should just work out of the box

[tavoeh]

Some languages with long words or with unsupported spacing rules like Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc

[tavoeh]

For instance, the following code breaks the line but doesn’t add a hyphen (or at least not out of the box)

Text(
    text = "AndroidJetPackComposeWithoutSpaces",
    fontSize = 30.sp
)

[Siyamed]

b/122477237 and b/122476122

[Siyamed]

please vote them

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

Also this was just announced: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/03/second-preview-android-13.html