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BasicText

Common

Component in Compose Foundation

Basic element that displays text and provides semantics / accessibility information. Typically you will instead want to use [androidx.compose.material.Text], which is a higher level Text element that contains semantics and consumes style information from a theme.

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Installation

dependencies {
   implementation("androidx.compose.foundation:foundation:1.8.0-alpha04")
}

Overloads

@Composable
fun BasicText(
    text: String,
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    style: TextStyle = TextStyle.Default,
    onTextLayout: ((TextLayoutResult) -> Unit)? = null,
    overflow: TextOverflow = TextOverflow.Clip,
    softWrap: Boolean = true,
    maxLines: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE,
    minLines: Int = 1,
    color: ColorProducer? = null
)

Parameters

namedescription
textThe text to be displayed.
modifier[Modifier] to apply to this layout node.
styleStyle configuration for the text such as color, font, line height etc.
onTextLayoutCallback that is executed when a new text layout is calculated. A [TextLayoutResult] object that callback provides contains paragraph information, size of the text, baselines and other details. The callback can be used to add additional decoration or functionality to the text. For example, to draw selection around the text.
overflowHow visual overflow should be handled.
softWrapWhether the text should break at soft line breaks. If false, the glyphs in the text will be positioned as if there was unlimited horizontal space. If [softWrap] is false, [overflow] and TextAlign may have unexpected effects.
maxLinesAn optional maximum number of lines for the text to span, wrapping if necessary. If the text exceeds the given number of lines, it will be truncated according to [overflow] and [softWrap]. It is required that 1 {'<='} [minLines] {'<='} [maxLines].
minLinesThe minimum height in terms of minimum number of visible lines. It is required that 1 {'<='} [minLines] {'<='} [maxLines].
colorOverrides the text color provided in [style]
@Composable
fun BasicText(
    text: AnnotatedString,
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    style: TextStyle = TextStyle.Default,
    onTextLayout: ((TextLayoutResult) -> Unit)? = null,
    overflow: TextOverflow = TextOverflow.Clip,
    softWrap: Boolean = true,
    maxLines: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE,
    minLines: Int = 1,
    inlineContent: Map<String, InlineTextContent> = mapOf(),
    color: ColorProducer? = null
)

Parameters

namedescription
textThe text to be displayed.
modifier[Modifier] to apply to this layout node.
styleStyle configuration for the text such as color, font, line height etc.
onTextLayoutCallback that is executed when a new text layout is calculated. A [TextLayoutResult] object that callback provides contains paragraph information, size of the text, baselines and other details. The callback can be used to add additional decoration or functionality to the text. For example, to draw selection around the text.
overflowHow visual overflow should be handled.
softWrapWhether the text should break at soft line breaks. If false, the glyphs in the text will be positioned as if there was unlimited horizontal space. If [softWrap] is false, [overflow] and TextAlign may have unexpected effects.
maxLinesAn optional maximum number of lines for the text to span, wrapping if necessary. If the text exceeds the given number of lines, it will be truncated according to [overflow] and [softWrap]. It is required that 1 {'<='} [minLines] {'<='} [maxLines].
minLinesThe minimum height in terms of minimum number of visible lines. It is required that 1 {'<='} [minLines] {'<='} [maxLines].
inlineContentA map store composables that replaces certain ranges of the text. It's used to insert composables into text layout. Check [InlineTextContent] for more information.
colorOverrides the text color provided in [style]
@Deprecated("Maintained for binary compatibility", level = DeprecationLevel.HIDDEN)
@Composable
fun BasicText(
    text: String,
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    style: TextStyle = TextStyle.Default,
    onTextLayout: ((TextLayoutResult) -> Unit)? = null,
    overflow: TextOverflow = TextOverflow.Clip,
    softWrap: Boolean = true,
    maxLines: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE
)

@Deprecated("Maintained for binary compatibility", level = DeprecationLevel.HIDDEN)
@Composable
fun BasicText(
    text: AnnotatedString,
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    style: TextStyle = TextStyle.Default,
    onTextLayout: ((TextLayoutResult) -> Unit)? = null,
    overflow: TextOverflow = TextOverflow.Clip,
    softWrap: Boolean = true,
    maxLines: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE,
    inlineContent: Map<String, InlineTextContent> = mapOf(),
)

@Deprecated("Maintained for binary compat", level = DeprecationLevel.HIDDEN)
@Composable
fun BasicText(
    text: String,
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    style: TextStyle = TextStyle.Default,
    onTextLayout: ((TextLayoutResult) -> Unit)? = null,
    overflow: TextOverflow = TextOverflow.Clip,
    softWrap: Boolean = true,
    maxLines: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE,
    minLines: Int = 1
)

@Deprecated("Maintained for binary compat", level = DeprecationLevel.HIDDEN)
@Composable
fun BasicText(
    text: AnnotatedString,
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
    style: TextStyle = TextStyle.Default,
    onTextLayout: ((TextLayoutResult) -> Unit)? = null,
    overflow: TextOverflow = TextOverflow.Clip,
    softWrap: Boolean = true,
    maxLines: Int = Int.MAX_VALUE,
    minLines: Int = 1,
    inlineContent: Map<String, InlineTextContent> = mapOf()
)
by @alexstyl