text-vertical

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Add the dependencies for the artifacts you need in the build.gradle file for your app or module:

dependencies {
    implementation "androidx.text:text-vertical:1.0.0-alpha02"
}

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)