textview cutting off a letter in android

Question

this is a screen shot from my android. the text is "asd". however the "d" is slightly cut off. here is the relevant view:

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/stuff"
            android:padding="2dp"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_below="@+id/other_stuff"
            android:layout_marginTop="33dp"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
            android:textStyle="italic" />

any idea as to what is causing this ?

Answer 1

ended up with a hacky solution which is adding a white space after the last italicized character

Answer 2

Ok this is pretty strange but I changed from android:maxLines="1" to android:singleLine="true" and now the text is not getting cut off.

Answer 3

This is caused by Android setting the TextView clipping rectangle for standard text and you using italic text. Italic text leans to the right, outside of the text bounds. For some reason Android does not account for this.

To prevent this, you can force a TextView to draw outside of its bounds by giving it a text shadow. If you set the shadow color to transparent, the result is simply un-clipped text. Add these to your TextView:

android:shadowColor="#00FFFFFF"
android:shadowDx="48"
android:shadowDy="0"
android:shadowRadius="1"

Also, if this doesn't work, try setting android:clipChildren=false on the parent layout.

Answer 4

I fixed it with setting the width of TextView to fill_parent instead of wrap_content...