Added in [API level 36](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels) Summary: [Methods](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/ComplicationText#pubmethods)

# ComplicationText


`
public


interface
ComplicationText
`


`


`

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| com.google.wear.services.complications.ComplicationText |

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| Known indirect subclasses [DynamicComplicationText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/DynamicComplicationText), [PlainComplicationText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/PlainComplicationText), [TimeDependentText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/TimeDependentText), [TimeDifferenceComplicationText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/TimeDifferenceComplicationText), [TimeFormatComplicationText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/TimeFormatComplicationText) |---|---| | [DynamicComplicationText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/DynamicComplicationText) | A `https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/ComplicationText` where the system evaluates a `https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/expression/ProtoLayoutDynamicString`. | | [PlainComplicationText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/PlainComplicationText) | A `https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/ComplicationText` to be used when displaying a static string. | | [TimeDependentText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/TimeDependentText) | Interface for any object that returns different text depending on the given timestamp. | | [TimeDifferenceComplicationText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/TimeDifferenceComplicationText) | Class to generate string representations of time differences. | | [TimeFormatComplicationText](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/TimeFormatComplicationText) | Class to generate string representations of dates/times according to a specified format. | |

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The text within a complication.

This text may change over time for `https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/DynamicComplicationText` and `https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/TimeDependentText`. The corresponding implementations provide methods to access their data.


## Summary

| ### Public methods ||
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| ` default boolean` | ` https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/wear/services/complications/ComplicationText#isPlaceholder()() ` Returns if this `ComplicationText` is a placeholder. |

## Public methods

### isPlaceholder

Added in [API level 36](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)

```
public boolean isPlaceholder ()
```

Returns if this `ComplicationText` is a placeholder.

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| Returns ||
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| `boolean` | <br /> |