Is there a way to make a material <exposed dropdow...

# compose

[Vsevolod Ganin]

Is there a way to make a material exposed dropdown menu? I already know composables DropdownMenu and DropdownMenuItem but I can’t figure what to put in toggle to make it look like from design doc. It seems that there should be either TextField or OutlineTextField but these are very unfriendly when I try to mute their text editing capabilities

[Doris Liu]

Why not put Text (with a click listener) in toggle, as opposed to TextField? Text is designed to be read-only, so you don't need to worry about disabling text editing.

[Vsevolod Ganin]

Text just has no styling. TextField on the other hand is from material design and has the styling just what I need

[Vsevolod Ganin]

And exposed dropdown menu is implemented using TextInputLayout in Material Components for Android by the way. I thought the same logic would apply to Material in Compose

[Doris Liu]

Allowing text input is useful for some use cases like a search box. In your case for styling purposes, I assume AmbientTextStyle.current didn't work for you?

[Vsevolod Ganin]

What do you mean? AmbientTextStyle.current just contains some text parameters which were provided earlier. TextField has its own distinctive values for styling. Besides text parameters, TextField declares distinctive paddings, sizes, it positions leading/trailing icons in a way, etc. I just don’t want to implement these specs again for read-only case though it’s perfectly valid option