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Kotlin code to create annotated string for bold markdown
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| // Text may contain bold markdown so let's make it work | |
| fun formattedText(text: String): AnnotatedString { | |
| // Bold ** - only one we care about right now | |
| val boldPieces = text.split(Regex("\\*\\*")) | |
| if (boldPieces.size == 1) { | |
| return AnnotatedString(text) | |
| } | |
| // This does not work if the string begins with ** | |
| return buildAnnotatedString { | |
| var toggleBoldOff = false | |
| pushStyle(SpanStyle(fontWeight = FontWeight.Normal)) | |
| for (piece in boldPieces) { | |
| append(piece) | |
| if (toggleBoldOff) { | |
| pop() | |
| toggleBoldOff = false | |
| } else { | |
| pushStyle(SpanStyle(fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold)) | |
| toggleBoldOff = true | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |
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This is short and sweet and met my needs. You could probably adapt this to write a function for italic and so on if you wanted.