Android - ImageSpan - How to center align the image at the end of the text

Question

I have the following in an xml layout :

Notice how the hexagon # 4 is NOT center aligned with the text. How can i do this: here is what i have tried so far:

To actually get the view with the # inside of it i inflate a view that looks like this:

//my_hexagon_button.xml:

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
       <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
                     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                     android:orientation="vertical"
                     android:padding="0dp"
                     tools:ignore="MissingPrefix">


           <Button
               android:id="@+id/tv_icon"
               fontPath="proxima_nova_semi_bold.otf"
               android:layout_width="16dp"
               android:layout_height="17.5dp"
               android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
               android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
               android:alpha=".25"
               android:background="@drawable/hexagon"
               android:clickable="true"
               android:contentDescription="@string/content_description"
               android:focusable="false"
               android:padding="0dp"
               android:text="4"
               android:textColor="@color/white"
               android:textSize="8dp"
               />

       </LinearLayout>

After inflating the view i take a copy of its drawing cache and i use that in the ImageSpan. here is how i get the copy of the drawing cache:

public Bitmap getIconBitmap() {
               LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
               LinearLayout myRoot = new LinearLayout(getActivity());

               // inflate and measure the button then grab its image from the view cache
               ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_hexagon_button, myRoot);
               TextView tv = (TextView) parent.findViewById(R.id.tv_icon);

               parent.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
               parent.measure(View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED),
                       View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED));
               parent.layout(0, 0, parent.getMeasuredWidth(), parent.getMeasuredHeight());

               parent.buildDrawingCache(true);
               // if you need bounds on the view, swap bitmap for a drawable and call setbounds, im not using bounds
               Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(parent.getDrawingCache());
               parent.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false); // clear drawing cache

               return b;
           }

So now i have a bitmap that looks like the hexagon #4 image in the drawing i attached. Now lets use that in the ImageSpan:

public Spannable createImageSpan(TextView tv,Bitmap bitmapIcon) {

                   Spannable span = new SpannableString(tv.getText());
                   int start = span.length() - 1;
                   int end = span.length();

                   ImageSpan image = new ImageSpan(new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmapIcon),ImageSpan.ALIGN_BASELINE);
                   span.setSpan(image, start, end, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

                   return span;

               }

then later on i simply set that span on my textview. also dont forget to set the bounds on the drawable or it wont display, and it wroks but the image is not aligned center in the text. Notice how it drops to the bottom. How can i resolve this cleanly ?

Answer 1

You can use this class to align ImageSpan with text

public class VerticalImageSpan extends ImageSpan {

    public VerticalImageSpan(Drawable drawable) {
        super(drawable);
    }

    /**
     * update the text line height
     */
    @Override
    public int getSize(Paint paint, CharSequence text, int start, int end,
                       Paint.FontMetricsInt fontMetricsInt) {
        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        Rect rect = drawable.getBounds();
        if (fontMetricsInt != null) {
            Paint.FontMetricsInt fmPaint = paint.getFontMetricsInt();
            int fontHeight = fmPaint.descent - fmPaint.ascent;
            int drHeight = rect.bottom - rect.top;
            int centerY = fmPaint.ascent + fontHeight / 2;

            fontMetricsInt.ascent = centerY - drHeight / 2;
            fontMetricsInt.top = fontMetricsInt.ascent;
            fontMetricsInt.bottom = centerY + drHeight / 2;
            fontMetricsInt.descent = fontMetricsInt.bottom;
        }
        return rect.right;
    }

    /**
     * see detail message in android.text.TextLine
     *
     * @param canvas the canvas, can be null if not rendering
     * @param text the text to be draw
     * @param start the text start position
     * @param end the text end position
     * @param x the edge of the replacement closest to the leading margin
     * @param top the top of the line
     * @param y the baseline
     * @param bottom the bottom of the line
     * @param paint the work paint
     */
    @Override
    public void draw(Canvas canvas, CharSequence text, int start, int end,
                     float x, int top, int y, int bottom, Paint paint) {

        Drawable drawable = getDrawable();
        canvas.save();
        Paint.FontMetricsInt fmPaint = paint.getFontMetricsInt();
        int fontHeight = fmPaint.descent - fmPaint.ascent;
        int centerY = y + fmPaint.descent - fontHeight / 2;
        int transY = centerY - (drawable.getBounds().bottom - drawable.getBounds().top) / 2;
        canvas.translate(x, transY);
        drawable.draw(canvas);
        canvas.restore();
    }
}

Thanks to this answer