`Slider` doesn t follow the `steps` and lets me drag it all

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`Slider` doesn t follow the `steps` and lets me drag it all over Is this a known bug Is the main issue tracker the right place to report issues on material design compose lib

matvei · Answer

What would you expect to happen when you drag between steps Just thumb to jump between states with to intermediate progress It might make sense but it will look like it s not responding especially if space between steps is quite big Take a look at the material spec here <https material io components sliders discrete sliders> It will render thumb in between steps as well but as long as you lift your finger it will snap to the closes anchor So it works as intended for now

matvei · Answer

I will ask our UX people to see if there s something we want to support provide as opt in File a bug please on Jetpack Compose component slightly smiling face

galex · Answer

Ahh I see I thought it would be like the implementation of the material library where it doesn t behave like that Sure will do

galex · Answer

Ohhh I know what disturbed me so much The `steps` parameter is how many steps we want in between aka if I want 1 to 100 by steps of 10 I need to say `steps=10 ` Before we would just set up stepSize That s why it felt super weird once I switched to Compose

galex · Answer

hmm not even correct the right answer is 9 here super weird

matvei · Answer

I think the answer is 8 slightly smiling face `steps` is the amount of steps between min and max bound We probably need to explicitly say that in the param docs

galex · Answer

IMHO it s a better API pass a stepSize like it was set up previously gt <https material io develop android components sliders>

galex · Answer

So that we don t need to start calculating the number of steps in between the component can do that itself right flushed

matvei · Answer

Yes we can do this conversion internally Thanks I will thing about it The reverse it also true sometimes you care about the amount of steps not the step size so some of the usecases will be slightly harder then others in this case anyway The questions is which is more popular and more usual