textview cutting off a letter in android

Question

this is a screen shot from my android. the text is "asd". however the "d" is slightly cut off. here is the relevant view:

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/stuff"
            android:padding="2dp"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_below="@+id/other_stuff"
            android:layout_marginTop="33dp"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
            android:textStyle="italic" />

any idea as to what is causing this ?

Answer 1

could be the padding, try setting that to 0dp

also is there anything else in the layout?

Answer 2

To narrow down the source of the error try setting android:letterSpacing="0" This was the reason for cut off letters in my case. Another hint for too much letter spacing is that the cut off part get bigger when the text has more letters in it.

Answer 3

This is my solution: Format textview and measure. After that set width of textview with 1 pixel add to the width measured.

    TextView textView = new TextView(this);
    textView.setText("Text blah blah");
    textView.setTypeface(typeface, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC)
    textView.measure(MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
    textView.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(textView.getMeasuredWidth() + 1, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

Working for me. Hope these help.

Answer 4

You could always create custom TextView that will use for example this font (cause in fact this is a problem with italic type):

Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(), "fonts/Roboto-LightItalic.ttf");
setTypeface(tf);

More details here.

Answer 5

Ok this is pretty strange but I changed from android:maxLines="1" to android:singleLine="true" and now the text is not getting cut off.

Answer 6

I encountered the same problem but with EditText when used some fonts. My solution works also with TextView:

1. Use padding

2. As TextView using Canvas.clipRect(float, float, float, float) in onDraw method to crop - create custom Canvas class and override this method (leave it empty).

3. Next сreate custom TextView and override two methods onSizeChanged and onDraw.

In onSizeChanged create bitmap with the size of TextView and our custom Canvas.

In onDraw first draw in bitmap by passing our custom Canvas to method super.onDraw. After that draw bitmap to target сanvas.

More detailed in my answer to the similar question here