Is there a way to hide text in a TextView?

Question

Is there a way to hide some (but not all) of the text in a TextView? I tried setting the size to 0 with AbsoluteSizeSpan, but that doesn\'t have any visual effect that I see.

Answer 1

I just had this problem and wrote the following class:

public class NoDisplaySpan extends ReplacementSpan {

    public NoDisplaySpan() {}

    @Override
    public void draw(Canvas arg0, CharSequence arg1, int arg2, int arg3,
            float arg4, int arg5, int arg6, int arg7, Paint arg8) {}

    @Override
    public int getSize(Paint paint, CharSequence text, int start, int end,
            FontMetricsInt fm) {
        return 0;
    }
}

It seems to only work within a paragraph; I get an ArrayIndexOutofBoundsException thrown when I set the span to extend past a newline. I'd love to hear if anyone can figure that out.