Hi all I wondered if any of you had any issues or suggestion

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Hi all I wondered if any of you had any issues or suggestions related to multi style text AnnotatedString and its builder

molikto · Answer

1 currently there seems no way to insert an image within a AnnotatedString

Siyamed · Answer

Yes there is not We think that it should not AnnotatedString in current plans will contain annotations markers Compared to what we have on android where Spanned accepts all kinds of objects

Siyamed · Answer

The API to have an inline image is soon though I e custom inline emoji similar to kotlin

molikto · Answer

thx there isn t an `2` though

Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] · Answer

I think someone on the team mentioned earlier that links which is really just making certain ranges of text clickable would also be done a different way than we re used to with Spanned

Siyamed · Answer

It is on its way as well The code will be on widget but not attached to AnnotatedString Highly experimental

Siyamed · Answer

The code to handle click

Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] · Answer

What about more advanced formatting like the `Html fromHtml` method or this example of formatting bullet points with a custom span <https github com googlearchive android text blob master TextStyling Java app src main java com android example text styling renderer spans BulletPointSpan java>

Siyamed · Answer

I do not know bullets We will have a way to provide bullets but is it in text or not i don t know Overall we categorized bullets margins dropcap etc as paragraph styling

Siyamed · Answer

One of the things i dislike about curent textview edittext is that they try to have another layout system for text

Siyamed · Answer

The things to support doesnt end Tables images paragraphs and it is close to impossible to make it performant

Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] · Answer

Yea that makes sense

Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] · Answer

I actually tried implementing bullet point rendering using the `Table` composable and not only was it pretty straightforward to do but text selection seemed to Just Work across different `Text` instances which seemed like magic

Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] · Answer

I ve also noticed that multiple text instances get grouped into the same semantics I really like how it opens up the possibility to build complex custom text layouts that look like one big fancy text block to screen readers selection etc

Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] · Answer

Anyhoo getting off topic sorry