Is there a relatively straight-forward way of removing the bottom indicator line in (filled) `TextFi...

# compose

[sindrenm]

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.

[Se7eN]

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

[matvei]

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]

[sindrenm]

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

[Se7eN]

This is mine

[sindrenm]

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. 😎

[matvei]

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.

[Se7eN]

Yeah the indicator is the only reason we're forced to use BaseTextField in a lot of cases

[sindrenm]

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

[Robert Menke]

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