ReplacementSpan's draw() method isn't called

Question

I set background in string like that:

spanString.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(color), 0, 3, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

But I would l

Answer 1

Looks like I found a working (but hacky) solution to this problem. Try to add another symbol to the end of the string so that it isn't included in the span - and then draw() gets called!

 char EXTRA_SPACE = ' ';
 String text = originalString + EXTRA_SPACE;
 Spannable spannable = new SpannableString(text);
 spannable.setSpan(new MyReplacementSpan(), 0, text.length()-1, Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
 textView.setText(spannable);

Looks like it ignores the spans which are whole string wide.