I'd like to scale the local Density for a composable so that it fills it's constraints without overflowing, with bounds. I can do this manually using

LocalDensity

and

onGloballyPositioned

, but this seems like it would be very sub-optimal. Is there a way to do this built in, or using a custom layout? I could not find a way to alter the density in a custom layout

Relatively speaking the most "correct" way to do this is probably going to involve SubcomposeLayout, but why are you looking to do this? It sounds like there's an X-Y problem here somewhere

Possibly, yeah. I'm working (on Desktop) with multiple screen sizes, and want to scale the text of the sidebar (and the spacers, which are all measured in

dp

) so that it's readable on all resolutions, but doesn't overflow to a scrollbar if I can avoid it. Smaller screens can support smaller density values while still being readable, so my approach was to set a min density, then scale up if the screen is big enough.

You might poke around a search in this channel for resizable text, using smaller text sizes to make it fit an area is a pretty common use case and I've seen some snippets posted here and there