Annores

Annores, from Annotated Resource, provides the ability to retrieve AnnotatedStrings from resources through simple Composable functions.

Why

Android Resources provides the ability to get a string that is formatted or a string that is styled, however there are 2 issues with this:

1. When you get a styled string, it's a Spanned which isn't usable by Jetpack Compose
2. You can't get a string that is both formatted & styled

Annores addresses both of these issues by first converting the styled Spanned to an AnnotatedString which is usable by Composables then extending this conversion to handle formatting

Use

The latest version can be included from Maven Central.

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    //...
    implementation 'com.devbrackets.android:annores:1.0.0'
}

Quick Start

Annotated strings should be added to your strings.xml files the same way you add any other string or plural resource, e.g.

<string name="an_annotated_string">Annotated strings can be <b>Bold</b>, <i>Italic</i>, or any custom annotation</string>

Then you can reference this in a Composable function via annotatedStringResource or annotatedPluralStringResource, e.g.

@Composable
fun AnAnnotatedComposable() {
  Text(
    text = annotatedStringResource(R.string.an_annotated_string)
  )
}

License

Copyright 2023 Brian Wernick

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Attribution

• Uses Kotlin licensed under Apache 2.0
• Uses Compose licensed under Apache 2.0