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

<TextView android:id="@+id/prodLbl"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:textColor="#FFFF开发者_StackOverflow中文版FF"
    android:textSize="30dip"
    android:textStyle="italic"
    android:text="Magnifico"
    />

Seems to clip few pixels from the rightmost character, at least on 480x800 emulator or Nexus One.

To me it looks like a bug, but I'm just an Android beginner. I tried to add margins to left and right, but it still kept on clipping. In the end my hack around it was to add a single space on both sides of the text. Any other solutions?

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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());
}

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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)

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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.

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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).

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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

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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.

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

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

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It seems to me that if you apply italic programatically, it does content wrapping correctly. So set the typeface of the TextView manually, e.g. in kotlin:

textView.typeface = Typeface.create(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.ITALIC)

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Although I'd generally prefer sziraqui's answer that suggests using a true italic font, these are not always available.
As the problem at hand is caused by the mismeasurement of the text's boundaries, I just set android:layout_width="0dp", giving the TextView as much horizontal space as it needs. This might also not be ideal in all circumstances, but it's a simple and not too hackish solution for many situations.

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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"