Next up on SwiftUI/Compose comparison 🙂 ....in SwiftUI I can apply a font to all

Text

elements within something like

HStack

as shown below. Is anything similar possible right now with Compose (or planned)?

HStack {
    Text("some text")
    Text("some more text")
}
.font(.caption)

Yeah, you can use Ambients (https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/runtime/Ambient) for that. There are a few ambients built into Material, including text style, content color, etc TextStyles are a little bit of an oddball in that you should use

ProvideTextStyle

instead of the usual

Providers

, so the Compose equivalent would look something like:

ProvideTextStyle(MaterialTheme.typography.caption) {
  Column {
    Text("some text")
    Text("some more text")
  }
}

ah, interesting, thanks!

Probably it'd be best to start with reading on what Compose has, and then ask about specific things that are missing

I do try and keep up with what's in Compose but clearly I missed a few things 🙂

https://developer.android.com/codelabs/jetpack-compose-theming#5 under "Working with Text"