Style parts of text

You can style parts of text to improve readability, increase positive user experience, and encourage greater creativity through use of colors and fonts.

Version compatibility

This implementation requires that your project minSDK be set to API level 21 or higher.

Dependencies

Style parts of text

The following code displays the string "Hello World" using blue for the "H", red for the "W", and black for the rest of the text. To set different styles within a single Text composable, use the following code:

@Composable
fun MultipleStylesInText() {
    Text(
        buildAnnotatedString {
            withStyle(style = SpanStyle(color = Color.Blue)) {
                append("H")
            }
            append("ello ")

            withStyle(style = SpanStyle(fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold, color = Color.Red)) {
                append("W")
            }
            append("orld")
        }
    )
}TextSnippets.kt

Key points about the code

Uses buildAnnotatedString that returns an AnnotatedString string to set different styles within text.
Styles part of text with SpanStyle, a configuration that allows character-level styling.

Results

Hello World text with multiple styles — **Figure 1.** A line of text with multiple styles.

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