Is there a way in compose to define an Image fun w...

# compose

[David Corrado]

Is there a way in compose to define an Image fun where you only provide the height and width of the image and not of the view 🧵

[David Corrado]

So I want to say an image is 16x16 and padding is 20x20. I could put padding modifier first but I am doing server driven UI where modifiers are provided by the backend in a particular order. I am sure that is not recommended but I would still like to understand how this could be possible. Whenever you setup a height and width all padding that you do after that is within that fixed height width. But I do not want the whole view to have a fixed height width but the image. Hopefully thats clear.

[Filip Wiesner]

So if you have to specify size first and then padding, why don't you add the padding to the size?

Modifier.size(sizeDp + paddingDp).padding(paddingDp)

Maybe I just don't understand the question 😅

[David Corrado]

I think you understand the question. Yeah I think I could do that. Any other ways? I was hoping to not have to deal with the side effects of how height and width make it fixed and just set the image sizes but that might not be posssible

[David Corrado]

I tested it out btw and it works. But it gets more complicated. Such as if you add a border you also need to add that to the size and potentially other modifiers that need to adjust size.

[Filip Wiesner]

I think that border does not add size but otherwise yes. I guess you are looking for something like margin but that's not how the Modifier system works. The order does matter and it matter intentionally. Let me see if I can find a thread on modifiers where Adam Powell talks about this.

side effects of how height and width make it fixed

How is that a side effect? I think that it is THE effect.

[Filip Wiesner]

The thread I mentioned