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I want to scroll a `LazyRow`  so that the element is centered.
`LazyListState.animateScrollToItem()` takes an `index` and a `scrollOffset` as arguments.
Per default it scrolls the list so that the item is the first one.
If a positive `scrollOffset` is given it scrolls further, making the item go off scren.

So I tried to give a negative `scrollOffset` and calculate what I need so that the element is in center position.

The problem is: Negative Offsets are not allowed. :disappointed:

How can I scroll to an index that it's at the center of the list?

There is a feature request <https://issuetracker.google.com/184252837> to allow for negative offset

without that the only way I can think of doing it is _if_ your items are all the same size so you could scroll the appropriate other item to the top of the view - hacky I know

Thank you for pointing me to the feature request.

Unfortunately they are not all the same size.
Nevertheless I need to hack that I guess.

<@U02DCJKDF7U> In SwiftUI you can provide an `anchor`  like `leading`, `center` and `trailing`  to the `scrollTo` function and it works out-of-the-box. I wish I had the same with Jetpack Compose.

<@U02DCJKDF7U> I wasn't successful to find a reliable relatively quick hack. This looks like a lot of work to me to do that in a proper way.

I created an issue for the Jetpack Compose team and we will see if they manage to match functionality with SwiftUI here.

<https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/200374702>