Android and in TextView

Question

is it possible to add   in TextView? Has anyone achieved similar functionality?

I want to have non-breakable space in TextView.

Answer 1

This worked for me:

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
    textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(your string, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
} else {
    textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(your string);
}

Answer 2

This is an example that using nbsp in a TextView

<string name="text">Example:\u00A0</string>

Answer 3

TextView respects the Unicode no-break space character (\u00A0), which would be a simpler/lighter solution than HTML.

Answer 4

The TextView should respect the non breaking space

<string name="test">Hello&#160;world</string>

or

new TextView("Hello\u00A0world");

Answer 5

One unique situation I ran into was adding a non-breaking space to a string resource that took String.format parameters.

<resources>
    <string name="answer_progress" formatted="false">Answered %d of %d</string>
</resources>

I tried to simply copy and past the non-breaking space character into the string and it was replaced with a regular old space after compiling.

Removing the formatted="false", numbering the format args and using the backslash notation worked for me:

<resources>
    <string name="answer_progress">Answered %1$d\u00A0of\u00A0%2$d</string>
</resources>

Answer 6

\u00A0 is a non-breaking space, \u0020 is not a non-breaking space