androidandroid-jetpack-composehyphenationandroid-compose-textfield

Jetpack Compose Text Hyphenation

How do I get words to break correctly to new lines in Android with Jetpack Compose? I know the functionality from the web, where I use ­ for such cases.

I defined string values with possible line breaks like this: Korrespondenz\u00ADsprache. Unfortunately this does not work for Android.

I use the following code

Text(
    text = "Korrespondenz\u00ADsprache",
    style = MaterialTheme.typography.h4
)

Currently the result looks like this:

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The expected result should look like this:

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Solution

  • You can override the default configuration of the hyphenation configuration (Hyphens = Hyphens.None) using:

       Text(
       text = "Korrespondenz\u00ADsprache",
       style = MaterialTheme.typography.h4.copy(hyphens = Hyphens.Auto)
   )

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    With Auto the words will be automatically broken at appropriate hyphenation points.

    It requires 1.3.0-rc01