Commonmark Markdown

Library for parsing and rendering Markdown in Compose using CommonMark library/spec to parse, and richtext-markdown to render.

Gradle

dependencies {
  implementation("com.halilibo.compose-richtext:richtext-commonmark:${richtext_version}")
}

Parsing

richtext-markdown module renders a given Markdown Abstract Syntax Tree. It accepts a root AstNode. This library gives you a parser called CommonmarkAstNodeParser to easily convert any String to an AstNode that represents the Markdown tree.

    val parser = CommonmarkAstNodeParser()
    val astNode = parser.parse(
        """
        # Demo

        Emphasis, aka italics, with *asterisks* or _underscores_. Strong emphasis, aka bold, with **asterisks** or __underscores__. Combined emphasis with **asterisks and _underscores_**. [Links with two blocks, text in square-brackets, destination is in parentheses.](https://www.example.com). Inline `code` has `back-ticks around` it.

        1. First ordered list item
        2. Another item
            * Unordered sub-list.
        3. And another item.
            You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we'll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).

        * Unordered list can use asterisks
        - Or minuses
        + Or pluses
        """.trimIndent()
    )
    // ...

    RichTextScope.BasicMarkdown(astNode)

Rendering

The simplest way to render markdown is just pass a string to the Markdown composable under RichText scope:

RichText(
  modifier = Modifier.padding(16.dp)
) {
  Markdown(
    """
    # Demo

    Emphasis, aka italics, with *asterisks* or _underscores_. Strong emphasis, aka bold, with **asterisks** or __underscores__. Combined emphasis with **asterisks and _underscores_**. [Links with two blocks, text in square-brackets, destination is in parentheses.](https://www.example.com). Inline `code` has `back-ticks around` it.

    1. First ordered list item
    2. Another item
        * Unordered sub-list.
    3. And another item.
        You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we'll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).

    * Unordered list can use asterisks
    - Or minuses
    + Or pluses
    ---

    ```javascript
    var s = "code blocks use monospace font";
    alert(s);
    ```

    Markdown | Table | Extension
    --- | --- | ---
    *renders* | `beautiful images` | ![random image](https://picsum.photos/seed/picsum/400/400 "Text 1")
    1 | 2 | 3

    > Blockquotes are very handy in email to emulate reply text.
    > This line is part of the same quote.
    """.trimIndent()
  )
}

Which produces something like this:

MarkdownParseOptions

Passing MarkdownParseOptions into either Markdown composable or CommonmarkAstNodeParser.parse method provides the ability to control some aspects of the markdown parser:

val markdownParseOptions = MarkdownParseOptions(
  autolink = false
)

Markdown(
  markdownParseOptions = markdownParseOptions
)