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

Answer 1

Found another solution (tested on 4.1.2 and 4.3 while using wrap_content). If you extend TextView or EditText class you can override onMeasure method this way:

@Override
protected void onMeasure(final int widthMeasureSpec, final int heightMeasureSpec) {
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);

    final int measuredWidth = getMeasuredWidth();
    final float tenPercentOfMeasuredWidth = measuredWidth * 0.1f;
    final int newWidth = measuredWidth + (int) tenPercentOfMeasuredWidth;

    setMeasuredDimension(newWidth, getMeasuredHeight());
}

Answer 2

Looking at the source I found out that setting a shadow extends the clip rectangle.

A trick is to set an invisible shadow just beyond the character.

For example:

android:shadowRadius="2"
android:shadowDx="2"
android:shadowColor="#00000000"

I think this solution is better as it will not extend the width of the TextView which may happen when adding an extra character (which is more apparent with a background).

Answer 3

android:layout_width="wrap_content" , gives you a rectangle for wrapped content rendering. All will work well for normal text (non-italic).

Once you have italic text enabled, the wrapped text will try to fit into the rectangle and hence the rightmost character will be cut off unless its un-cut-able (such as ., ), 1, etc.)

Solution as suggested is to have a space at the end of the text (or anything better ??)

PS: This applies to android:gravity="right" too because the text will be pushed to the rightmost. If we have italic text, we face the same problem.

Answer 4

You can add a HAIR SPACE to your string

<string name="hair_space">&#x200A;</string>

String hairSpace = getContext().getString(R.string.hair_space);
textView.setText(hairSpace + originalString + hairSpace)

Answer 5

Add a 3dp padding to the right on your TextView. I tried with 1dp and 2dp, but 3dp seemed to do the trick fully.

android:paddingRight="3dp"

Answer 6

This is my solution: Format textview and measure. After that set width of textview with 1 pixel add to the width measured.

TextView textView = new TextView(this);
textView.setText("Text blah blah");
textView.setTypeface(typeface, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC)
textView.measure(MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
textView.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(textView.getMeasuredWidth() + 1, 
                                             LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

Working for me. Hope these help.