Font size too large to fit in cache

Question

So i recently switched to android 3.0 (honeycomb) and i\'m having some issues with hardware rendering, specifically at a certain custom view i\'ve written where I use a font

Answer 1

It is really a bug in the Android OS inside the Hardware Acceleration modules. I think that the best way is to ask the system to avoid HW acceleration on TextViews that contain large size text. To do so, just add in the code:

TextView bigText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.bigtext);
bigText.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);

Answer 2

Just an idea: Perhaps you can convert the font to an outline using Paint.getTextPath(...) and use this path to render the text. This should allow you to resize the path as needed.

Answer 3

The setLayerType method is useful, but unfortunately it is supported just for API >= 11. Developing for API = 8 or less it will become unusable.

If you can, a simple solution is disabling the hardware acceleration just for the activity that is giving you problems. I had this very problem and solved it this way:

<application
    android:...
    android:hardwareAccelerated="true" >
    <activity ...>
        ...
    </activity>

    <activity
        ...
        android:hardwareAccelerated="false">
        ...
    </activity>
</application>

This solution will disable the hardware acceleration just for the activities where you do not need it and where you aren't able to display large texts.