:grey_question: Is there a function to transform a...
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grandstaish
02/26/2021, 4:09 PM❔ Is there a function to transform an html string into an
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Adam Powell
02/26/2021, 4:12 PMNope. We've considered something like markdown/commonmark converters but html sets expectations of completeness that we'd prefer to avoid. We kind of regret having the minimal html-Spanned string parsers in Android for similar reasons.
Adam Powell
02/26/2021, 4:13 PMIt'd be a good opportunity for a community library now that the compose API is more stable though 🙂
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grandstaish
02/26/2021, 4:26 PMyeah I def understand the reluctance to putting a function like this into compose UI. a community-driven library is probably better 👍
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Leland Richardson [G]
02/26/2021, 4:29 PMyes. community library please! This is much better off there than in 1p compose API IMO
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Siyamed
02/26/2021, 4:29 PMPerformance was also a concern since parsing is expensive.
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
02/26/2021, 4:34 PMI’m planning to spend the weekend upgrading this library to the new beta and getting a release out. @Halil Ozercan was awesome and added markdown support, it doesn’t do html yet but it’s just a matter of elbow grease!
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Siyamed
02/26/2021, 4:38 PMlooks awesome
Siyamed
02/26/2021, 4:38 PMit has some of the things that we wanted to have, can I request features 😄 seriously
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Siyamed
02/26/2021, 4:38 PMSiyamed
02/26/2021, 4:41 PMThe Table example there is so awesome 🙂 I fought hard not to put concepts like that into base Text 🙂
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
02/26/2021, 4:49 PMyou might say the feature was… tabled
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Sean McQuillan [G]
02/26/2021, 7:10 PM@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] this is excellent
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