Italic TextView with wrap_contents seems to clip the text at right edge

Answer 1

A proper and clean solution:

Use an italic custom font instead of setting textStyle='italic' For example:

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView
            android:text="yolO"
            app:fontFamily="@font/roboto_italic"/>

I haven't tried it on regular TextView but from my observations, the problem is with textStyle='italic'.

Works without any hack!

Here's a proof of blaming textStyle attribute:

I made a custom fontFamily and defined typeface for normal, bold and italic

res/font/app_font_family.xml

<font-family xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <font app:fontStyle="normal" app:fontWeight="400" app:font="@font/roboto_regular"/>
    <font app:fontStyle="italic" app:fontWeight="400" app:font="@font/roboto_italic" />
    <font app:fontStyle="normal" app:fontWeight="700" app:font="@font/roboto_medium"/>
</font-family>

Now when I use this fontFamily and apply textStyle='italic', the rightmost character is still clipped.

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView
            android:text="yolO"
            app:fontFamily="@font/app_font_family"
            android:textStyle='italic' />

This is on Api 23 with support library 28.0.0 and Android Studio 3.2

Answer 2

I also had the same issue and used a non-breaking space entity via HTML:

textView.setText("Magnifico" + Html.fromHtml(" ");

Answer 3

I added " \" to end of all strings in my strings.xml. \ is the escape character, so this way I could come over the issue, but this solution is nasty. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

This applies to fixed-width TextViews also, not just "wrap_content". I'm not sure if the issue is version-specific as some commenters have alluded to. I see the issue on all Honeycomb versions. From what I've seen the issue does not go away by setting margin, padding, using a fixed-width, or a true-italic custom typeface.

Answer 5

You could also use the Unicode no-break space character (\u00A0).

Answer 6

Just add an extra space to the end of the text. In XML, you will have to add \u0020 to the end as otherwise XML ignores whitespace at the beginning/end by default.