Add Android text font variation settings (#57804) - #57804
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Summary: Add a `fontVariationSettings` text style prop and carry it through Fabric text attributes into Android text rendering. Android now deserializes the prop for `<Text>`, applies it to `Paint`, and includes it in text measurement cache identity because variable axes can affect layout. Preserve the distinction between an absent setting and an explicitly empty setting so nested text can inherit or clear the parent variation axes. Apply high-level font properties before low-level variation settings so explicit axes take precedence, matching CSS font realization order. Settings syntax is intentionally forwarded unchanged through common text attributes and validated only by the Android font variation parser. This avoids narrowing the grammar Android accepts. As a result, malformed child settings are outside the supported inheritance contract: they replace an inherited value before Android validation and are not guaranteed to fall back to the parent settings. Android also accepts `normal` and the React Native empty-string convention as explicit resets. Changelog: [Android][Added] - Add `fontVariationSettings` support for `<Text>` Reviewed By: Abbondanzo Differential Revision: D113580491
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Summary: Add a `fontVariationSettings` text style prop and carry it through Fabric text attributes into Android text rendering. Android now deserializes the prop for `<Text>`, applies it to `Paint`, and includes it in text measurement cache identity because variable axes can affect layout. Preserve the distinction between an absent setting and an explicitly empty setting so nested text can inherit or clear the parent variation axes. Apply high-level font properties before low-level variation settings so explicit axes take precedence, matching CSS font realization order. Settings syntax is intentionally forwarded unchanged through common text attributes and validated only by the Android font variation parser. This avoids narrowing the grammar Android accepts. As a result, malformed child settings are outside the supported inheritance contract: they replace an inherited value before Android validation and are not guaranteed to fall back to the parent settings. Android also accepts `normal` and the React Native empty-string convention as explicit resets. Changelog: [Android][Added] - Add `fontVariationSettings` support for `<Text>` Reviewed By: Abbondanzo Differential Revision: D113580491
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Summary: Add a `fontVariationSettings` text style prop and carry it through Fabric text attributes into Android text rendering. Android now deserializes the prop for `<Text>`, applies it to `Paint`, and includes it in text measurement cache identity because variable axes can affect layout. Preserve the distinction between an absent setting and an explicitly empty setting so nested text can inherit or clear the parent variation axes. Apply high-level font properties before low-level variation settings so explicit axes take precedence, matching CSS font realization order. Settings syntax is intentionally forwarded unchanged through common text attributes and validated only by the Android font variation parser. This avoids narrowing the grammar Android accepts. As a result, malformed child settings are outside the supported inheritance contract: they replace an inherited value before Android validation and are not guaranteed to fall back to the parent settings. Android also accepts `normal` and the React Native empty-string convention as explicit resets. Changelog: [Android][Added] - Add `fontVariationSettings` support for `<Text>` Reviewed By: Abbondanzo Differential Revision: D113580491
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Summary:
Add a
fontVariationSettingstext style prop and carry it through Fabric text attributes into Android text rendering. Android now deserializes the prop for<Text>, applies it toPaint, and includes it in text measurement cache identity because variable axes can affect layout.Preserve the distinction between an absent setting and an explicitly empty setting so nested text can inherit or clear the parent variation axes. Apply high-level font properties before low-level variation settings so explicit axes take precedence, matching CSS font realization order.
Settings syntax is intentionally forwarded unchanged through common text attributes and validated only by the Android font variation parser. This avoids narrowing the grammar Android accepts. As a result, malformed child settings are outside the supported inheritance contract: they replace an inherited value before Android validation and are not guaranteed to fall back to the parent settings. Android also accepts
normaland the React Native empty-string convention as explicit resets.Changelog:
[Android][Added] - Add
fontVariationSettingssupport for<Text>Reviewed By: Abbondanzo
Differential Revision: D113580491