I have two font ttf files that must be applied on a TextView
based on languages inside String
. So e.g. consider this sample text:
hey what's up ضعيف
I can just apply a typeface span based on language but it requires custom markup in every string that is fetched from our server e.g.
<ttf1>hey what's up <ttf1><ttf2>ضعيف</ttf2>
And parsing every String
at run time will give a performance hit. Is there any other approach to achieve this?
For start lets say I need to do this just for direction of text i.e. RTL and LTR so in above example English is LTR and Arabic is RTL. Will this be any different?
I have tried merging those two font files but there are line height issues and if I fix it for one font file it gets broken for other file.
I found a more elegant solution than manual markup with help of someone:
String paragraph = "hey what's up ضعيف";
int NO_FLAG = 0;
Bidi bidi = new Bidi(paragraph, NO_FLAG);
int runCount = bidi.getRunCount();
for (int i = 0; i < runCount; i++) {
String ltrtl = bidi.getRunLevel(i) % 2 == 0 ? "ltr" : "rtl";
String subString = paragraph.substring(bidi.getRunStart(i), bidi.getRunLimit(i));
Log.d(">>bidi:" + i, subString+" is "+ltrtl);
}
prints:
hey what's up is ltr
ضعيف is rtl
So now one can easily build TypefaceSpan
or MetricAffectingSpan
based on language direction like this:
SpannableString spanString = new SpannableString(paragraph);
for (int i = 0; i < runCount; i++) {
Object span = bidi.getRunLevel(i) % 2 == 0 ? ltrFontSpan : rtlFontSpan;
spanString.setSpan(span, bidi.getRunStart(i), bidi.getRunLimit(i), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
}
textView.setText(spanString);