How to handle visibility of a Text in Jetpack Compose?

As CommonsWare stated, compose being a declarative toolkit you tie your component to a state (for ex: isVisible), then compose will intelligently decide which composables depend on that state and recompose them. For ex:

@Composable
fun MyText(isVisible: Boolean){
  if(isVisible){
     Text(text = stringResource(id = R.string.hello))
  }
}

Also you could use the AnimatedVisibility() composable for animations.

With 1.0.x you can simply add a condition like:

  if(isVisible){
     Text("....")
  }

Something like:

var visible by remember { mutableStateOf(true) }
Column() {
    Text("Text")
    Button(onClick = { visible = !visible }) { Text("Toggle") }
}

If you want to animate the appearance and disappearance of its content you can use the AnimatedVisibility

var visible by remember { mutableStateOf(true) }
Column() {
    AnimatedVisibility(
        visible = visible,
        enter = fadeIn(
            // Overwrites the initial value of alpha to 0.4f for fade in, 0 by default
            initialAlpha = 0.4f
        ),
        exit = fadeOut(
            // Overwrites the default animation with tween
            animationSpec = tween(durationMillis = 250)
        )
    ) {
        // Content that needs to appear/disappear goes here:
        Text("....")
    }
    Button(onClick = { visible = !visible }) { Text("Toggle") }
}

As stated above, you could use AnimatedVisibility like:

AnimatedVisibility(visible = yourCondition) { Text(text = getString(R.string.yourString)) }