Next up on SwiftUI/Compose comparison :slightly_smiling_face: ....in SwiftUI I can apply a font to ...

# compose

[John O'Reilly]

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)

[Bryan Herbst]

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")
  }
}

[John O'Reilly]

ah, interesting, thanks!

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

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

[John O'Reilly]

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

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

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