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

Question

<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="#FFFFFF"     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?

Answer 1

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 2

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