Hello, does anyone know why the compose canvas does not have a function to draw text similar to the ...

# compose

[Mihai Hrincescu]

Hello, does anyone know why the compose canvas does not have a function to draw text similar to the native canvas? Is it not implemented yet or we should just use the drawContext.canvas.nativeCanvas() ?

[Siyamed]

Didnt implement it yet

[Siyamed]

We are not very happy with the old api either, and compose requires integration with compose text stack

[Mihai Hrincescu]

There is a lot of work to centre a char for example with the old API. Nice to hear that new API's are coming for this.

[Mihai Hrincescu]

@Siyamed Does the @Composable Text() not use the nativeCanvas.drawText() to draw text ? Is there some other skia API exposed by compose for drawing text?

[Siyamed]

It uses Paragraph

[Siyamed]

You can use Paragraph

[Siyamed]

Which probably will be what we will do

[Siyamed]

Still there are going to be issues related to paint etc maybe (issues in terms of paint is hidden in Paragraph)

[Siyamed]

Compose uses static layout etc. So skia is too low level at that point

[Mihai Hrincescu]

Well i was trying to build a Sudoku game and all i draw is lots of chars at different x,y positions on the screen so i don't need full blown text layout which i assume adds unnecessary overhead. I'm not sure if Paragraph is all that different from Text for what i need it to do but i'll look into it I didn't even know it existed so thanks for the suggestion.