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

I fixed it with setting the width of TextView to fill_parent instead of wrap_content...

Answer 2

the problem here is, the italic property. You have to set a particular width for your textview.

Answer 3

I suspect the issue would not occur if you were not using italic text. I'd test that out first, and if using non-italic text renders it correctly, then it looks like a rendering issue, that would need working around with extra padding in the TextView to allow space for the italic letters.

Answer 4

You can use .

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

istead of

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

Answer 5

none of the mentioned suggestions work, ended up with a hacky solution which is adding a white space after the last italicized character