Text in Compose

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Text is a central piece of any UI, and Jetpack Compose makes it easier to display or write text. Compose leverages composition of its building blocks, meaning you don’t need to overwrite properties and methods or extend big classes to have a specific composable design and logic working the way you want.

As its base, Compose provides a BasicText and BasicTextField, which are the barebones to display text and handle user input. At a higher level, Compose provides Text and TextField, which are composables following Material Design guidelines. It’s recommended to use them as they have the right look and feel for users on Android, and includes other options to simplify their customization without having to write a lot of code.

Samples

GitHub

Jetchat sample

Jetchat is a sample chat app built with Jetpack Compose. To try out this sample app, use the latest stable version of Android Studio. You can clone this repository or import the project from Android Studio following the steps here. This sample