java.lang.ClassCastException: android.text.SpannableString cannot be cast to java.lang.String

Question

This will be displayed in a mono-spaced font. The first four spaces will be stripped off, but all other white space will be preserved.

String letterStr = null;
letterStr = (String)((TextView)view).getText();

Answer 1

the String contains html markups, and android treats it as a Spannable.

You can either assign the return value of getText() to a CharSequence object, which super class for both String and Spannable, or replace the cast with toString()

letterStr = ((TextView)view).getText().toString();

the former will preserve the html markups, the latter will not