Is there a relatively straight-forward way of removing the bottom indicator line in (filled) `TextField`s? I found

Modifier.drawIndicatorLine()

in TextField.kt but it's private. I could go ahead and make a “completely” custom text field using

BaseTextField

, I guess, it's just that

TextField

already had placeholders, leading/trailing icons and shapes and stuff built-in.

Yeah I was looking for that too but couldn't find anything so ended up using

BaseTextField

What's your usecase? Do you want to just make this bottom line transparent and have rounder corners everywhere? How far do you want to go from material specs? I want to understand usecase better so we could consider reasonable changes later on. cc @Anastasia [G]

I want to end up here, essentially. Figured I could use a

TextField

and set a shape, leading icon, background and a placeholder. simple smile

This is mine

I see Jetchat made its own using just

BaseTextField

, it's not really a problem to go that route. Just a little more stuff to manage. 😎

Thanks folks! The question here is how much you will be able to stretch material TextField before completely giving up 🙂 If you do real apps going down the

BaseTextField

route is more sustainable, since when you will add more features, you will hit more walls of material TextField being very opinionated about what goes where and what the animations are, etc. Anyway, if you think that just possibility of making indicator line transparent will solve your cases -- file a feature request please.

Yeah the indicator is the only reason we're forced to use

BaseTextField

in a lot of cases

Yeah, the more I think about it, I think it probably makes more sense to implement our own using

BaseTextField

. Especially seeing as filled text fields in Material always has a bottom line indicator, so it wouldn't really make sense to make it optional. Thanks! simple smile

How do you make a text field focused automatically when the composable is rendered? Still haven’t figured out how to do that properly.