Android Compose – Change Text font style to Italic
To change font style of Text composable to Italic, in Android Jetpack Compose, pass FontStyle.Italic
for the optional fontStyle
parameter of Text composable.
The following is a sample code snippet to set the font style to italic.
Text(
"Hello World",
fontStyle = FontStyle.Italic
)
Example
Create an Android Application with Jetpack Compose as template, and modify MainActivity.kt as shown in the following.
The Text composable in the following activity displays Hello World
text in Italics.
MainActivity.kt
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package com.example.myapplication
import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.activity.compose.setContent
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
import androidx.compose.material.Text
import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
import androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontStyle
import com.example.myapplication.ui.theme.MyApplicationTheme
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContent {
MyApplicationTheme {
Column(
horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth()
) {
Text(
"Hello World",
fontStyle = FontStyle.Italic
)
}
}
}
}
}
Screenshot in Emulator
Conclusion
In this Android Jetpack Compose Tutorial, we learned how to change the font style of Text composable to Italic in Android Project with Jetpack Compose.