Prevent word from being broken in TextView

Question

How do I prevent a word in a TextViewfrom breaking in half when it doesn't fit on the current line and instead move to the next line.

|android goo|
|gle kitkat |

should instead be

|android    |
|google     |
|kitkat     |

The TextView is currently added to a RelativeLayout using this code:

TextView tv = new TextView(this);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new  RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
layoutParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT, RelativeLayout.TRUE);

float scale = getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
int dpAsPixels = (int) (16*scale + 0.5f);
tv.setPadding(dpAsPixels, 0, dpAsPixels, 0);

tv.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);

String fullString = "<b>" + user + ":</b> " + text;
fullString = fullString.replaceAll("\n", "<br />");
fullString = fullString.replaceAll(" ", "&#160");
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(fullString));
tv.setTextSize(32f);
tv.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.text));

layout.addView(tv);

Answer 1

the problem is in following line

fullString = fullString.replaceAll(" ", "&#160");

remove it and it will work as you need, you don't need to replace space with html code, fromHtml will do it for you

Answer 2

The problem with your code is this line:

fullString = fullString.replaceAll(" ", "&#160");

By doing this, you replace all "normal" spaces with non-breakable spaces (&nbsp). Since these spaces are non-breakable, they prevent a line break.

Just remove this line and the words won't break in half anymore.