text-vertical
Latest Update | Stable Release | Release Candidate | Beta Release | Alpha Release |
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October 8, 2025 | - | - | - | 1.0.0-alpha02 |
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Add the dependencies for the artifacts you need in the build.gradle
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Groovy
dependencies { //TODO: Confirm these dependencies implementation "androidx.text:text-vertical:1.0.0-alpha02" }
Kotlin
dependencies { //TODO: Confirm these dependencies implementation("androidx.text:text-vertical:1.0.0-alpha02") }
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Text Vertical Version 1.0
Version 1.0.0-alpha02
October 08, 2025
androidx.text:text-vertical:1.0.0-alpha02
is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha02 contains these commits.
New Features
- Added
VerticalTextLayout#isVerticalTextLayoutSupported()
method to check capability of vertical text (Ie2802, b/442608654)
API Changes
- Introduced a graceful fallback in API < 36.(I8a67a, b/442608654)
- Downgrade
minSDK
to 23 to be used in other AndroidX libraries (I2d6b5, b/442608654)
Version 1.0.0-alpha01
August 27, 2025
androidx.text:text-vertical:1.0.0-alpha01
is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha01 contains these commits.
New Features
- A new vertical text library to support vertical text layout mainly for Japanese, by leveraging the new VERTICAL_TEXT_FLAG flag added in Android 16.
- Added
VerticalTextLayout
that displayed vertical text with proper line breaks, mixed orientation (e.g., horizontal Latin characters within a vertical line), and ruby text. (8b3a10) - Added
FontShearSpan
for italic-like style in vertical text. (1ffd78) - Added
EmphasisRun
for emphasis marks. (fe12d9)