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Wrote a quick blog post about the newest AndroidX library 'androidx.text:text-vertical' 📚✨ Learn about the cool functionality this provides and why this is important, particularly if you read Japanese newspapers 🇯🇵📰 Read more: www.spght.dev/articles/13-... #AndroidDev #AndroidX

That's true (outside of WebView's support for the <ruby> tag) However, there's some good open-source solutions available - github.com/mainrs/andro... - github.com/b84330808/Ru... Given the hard work was done in the vertical text library, I wonder if support will eventually come in AndroidX Text 🧐

These are pretty neat! Unfortunately neither has been suitable for my needs. The first only takes a String, so support for styling is very limited. The second is View-based, but this is a Compose Multiplatform app, so I need something purely in Compose.

I've built a custom solution that relies on setting a higher line height (and aligning text to the bottom), and then drawing the furigana in the empty space on top. It's quite messy now and there's some rough edges, but I hope to open source it soon! Here's how this looks (from the app itself):