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Glance's Text composable only accepts text as a String. This prevents using any annotated text with Glance widgets.

For example, a PR adding a widget to our Compose samples can't format the part of the text.

While supporting Composes' AnnotatedString would be ideal, I understand this might be a big task, because we'd need to translate it to the RemoteViews SpannableString.

As a first step I suggest changing the text to the CharSequence, which immediatelly enables using SpannableString and maybe show a reasonable error why AnnotatedString won't work.

Example using SpannableString in Glance widget: https://screenshot.googleplex.com/7bjJrhZw7riBiuf

Text(
  text = SpannableStringBuilder().append("Lorem ")
            .color(Color.RED) { append("red ") }
            .underline { append("Component Demo Widget") },
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