Android: How to wrap text by chars? (Not by words)

Question

For instance:

This is foo text for wrapping text in TextView

The way that TextView wraps is:

This is foo text for
wrapping text in ...

I want this:

This is foo text for wr
apping text in TextView

Answer 1

It's a bit hacky, but you could replace spaces with the unicode no-break space character (U+00A0). This will cause your text to be treated as a single string and wrap on characters instead of words.

myString.replace(" ", "\u00A0");

Answer 2

As I know, there is no such property for TextView. If you want to implement text wrapping by yourself, you can override TextView and use Paint's breakText(String text, boolean measureForwards, float maxWidth, float[] measuredWidth) function. Note that you have to specify text size, typeface etc to Paint instance.