Android TextView Justify TextHow do you get the text of a TextView to be Justified (with text flush on the left- and right- hand sides)?
I found a possible solution here [1], but it does not work (even if you change vertical-center to center_vertical, etc).
ACCEPTED]
I do not believe Android supports full justification.
UPDATE 2018-01-01: Android 8.0+ supports
justification modes with
TextView
[1].
TextView in Android O offers full justification (new typographic alignment) itself.
You just need to do this:
Kotlin
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
textView.justificationMode = JUSTIFICATION_MODE_INTER_WORD
}
Java
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
textView.setJustificationMode(JUSTIFICATION_MODE_INTER_WORD);
}
XML
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:justificationMode="inter_word" />
Default is JUSTIFICATION_MODE_NONE (none in xml).
26 and the value it can accept is added in API 29 - amar
The @CommonsWare answer is correct. Android 8.0+ does support "Full Justification" (or simply "Justification", as it is sometimes ambiguously referred to).
Android also supports "Flush Left/Right Text Alignment". See the wikipedia article on Justification [1] for the distinction. Many people consider the concept of 'justification' to encompass full-justification as well as left/right text alignment, which is what they end up searching for when they want to do left/right text alignment. This answer explains how to achieve the left/right text alignment.
It is possible to achieve Flush Left/Right Text Alignment (as opposed to Full Justification, as the question is asking about). To demonstrate I will be using a basic 2-column form (labels in the left column and text fields in the right column) as an example. In this example the text in the labels in the left column will be right-aligned so they appear flush up against their text fields in the right column.
In the XML layout you can get the TextView elements themselves (the left column) to align to the right by adding the following attribute inside all of the TextViews:
<TextView
...
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|end">
...
</TextView>
However, if the text wraps to multiple lines, the text would still be flush left aligned inside the TextView. Adding the following attribute makes the actual text flush right aligned (ragged left) inside the TextView:
<TextView
...
android:gravity="end">
...
</TextView>
So the gravity attribute specifies how to align the text inside the TextView layout_gravity specifies how to align/layout the TextView element itself.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justification_%28typesetting%29android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center" android:gravity="center". - Luis A. Florit
justify - user924
To justify text in android I used WebView
setContentView(R.layout.main);
WebView view = new WebView(this);
view.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(false);
((LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.inset_web_view)).addView(view);
view.loadData(getString(R.string.hello), "text/html; charset=utf-8", "utf-8");
and html.
<string name="hello">
<![CDATA[
<html>
<head></head>
<body style="text-align:justify;color:gray;background-color:black;">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
adipiscing elit. Nunc pellentesque, urna
nec hendrerit pellentesque, risus massa
</body>
</html>
]]>
</string>
I can't yet upload images to prove it but "it works for me".
view.loadData() with view.setBackgroundColor("#00000000"). - Paul Lammertsma
view.loadUrl() works, whereas view.loadData() does not. I have no clue why the latter doesn't. - Paul Lammertsma
webview.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, displayString, "text/html", "utf-8", ""); - Kirit Vaghela
We have created a simple class for this. There are currently two methods to achieve what you are looking for. Both require NO WEBVIEW and SUPPORTS SPANNABLES.
LIBRARY: https://github.com/bluejamesbond/TextJustify-Android
SUPPORTS: Android 2.0 to 5.X
SETUP
// Please visit Github for latest setup instructions.
SCREENSHOT
You can use
JustifiedTextView for Android
[1] project in github. this is a custom view that simulate justified text for you. It support Android 2.0+ and right to left languages.
I write a widget base on native textview to do it.
github [1]
java.lang.ClassCastException: android.text.SpannableString cannot be cast to java.lang.String Unfortunately the project is dead, there's other records with this errors in its issue tracker on GitHub which don't solved yet. - Acuna
I found a way to solve this problem, but this may not be very grace, but the effect is not bad.
Its principle is to replace the spaces of each line to the fixed-width ImageSpan (the color is transparent).
public static void justify(final TextView textView) {
final AtomicBoolean isJustify = new AtomicBoolean(false);
final String textString = textView.getText().toString();
final TextPaint textPaint = textView.getPaint();
final SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder();
textView.post(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
if (!isJustify.get()) {
final int lineCount = textView.getLineCount();
final int textViewWidth = textView.getWidth();
for (int i = 0; i < lineCount; i++) {
int lineStart = textView.getLayout().getLineStart(i);
int lineEnd = textView.getLayout().getLineEnd(i);
String lineString = textString.substring(lineStart, lineEnd);
if (i == lineCount - 1) {
builder.append(new SpannableString(lineString));
break;
}
String trimSpaceText = lineString.trim();
String removeSpaceText = lineString.replaceAll(" ", "");
float removeSpaceWidth = textPaint.measureText(removeSpaceText);
float spaceCount = trimSpaceText.length() - removeSpaceText.length();
float eachSpaceWidth = (textViewWidth - removeSpaceWidth) / spaceCount;
SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString(lineString);
for (int j = 0; j < trimSpaceText.length(); j++) {
char c = trimSpaceText.charAt(j);
if (c == ' ') {
Drawable drawable = new ColorDrawable(0x00ffffff);
drawable.setBounds(0, 0, (int) eachSpaceWidth, 0);
ImageSpan span = new ImageSpan(drawable);
spannableString.setSpan(span, j, j + 1, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
}
}
builder.append(spannableString);
}
textView.setText(builder);
isJustify.set(true);
}
}
});
}
I put the code on GitHub: https://github.com/twiceyuan/TextJustification
Overview:
Very Simple We can do that in the xml file
<TextView
android:justificationMode="inter_word"
/>
XML Layout: declare WebView instead of TextView
<WebView
android:id="@+id/textContent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
Java code: set text data to WebView
WebView view = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.textContent);
String text;
text = "<html><body><p align=\"justify\">";
text+= "This is the text will be justified when displayed!!!";
text+= "</p></body></html>";
view.loadData(text, "text/html", "utf-8");
This may Solve your problem. Its Fully worked for me.
Here's how I did it, I think the most elegant way I could. With this solution, the only things you need to do in your layouts are:
xmlns declarationTextViews source text namespace from android to your new namespaceTextViews with x.y.z.JustifiedTextViewHere's the code. Works perfectly fine on my phones (Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0.2, Galaxy Teos Android 2.1). Feel free, of course, to replace my package name with yours.
/assets/justified_textview.css:
body {
font-size: 1.0em;
color: rgb(180,180,180);
text-align: justify;
}
@media screen and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5) {
/* CSS for high-density screens */
body {
font-size: 1.05em;
}
}
@media screen and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 2.0) {
/* CSS for extra high-density screens */
body {
font-size: 1.1em;
}
}
/res/values/attrs.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<declare-styleable name="JustifiedTextView">
<attr name="text" format="reference" />
</declare-styleable>
</resources>
/res/layout/test.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:myapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/net.bicou.myapp"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<net.bicou.myapp.widget.JustifiedTextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
myapp:text="@string/surv1_1" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
/src/net/bicou/myapp/widget/JustifiedTextView.java:
package net.bicou.myapp.widget;
import net.bicou.myapp.R;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.view.View;
import android.webkit.WebView;
public class JustifiedTextView extends WebView {
public JustifiedTextView(final Context context) {
this(context, null, 0);
}
public JustifiedTextView(final Context context, final AttributeSet attrs) {
this(context, attrs, 0);
}
public JustifiedTextView(final Context context, final AttributeSet attrs, final int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
if (attrs != null) {
final TypedValue tv = new TypedValue();
final TypedArray ta = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.JustifiedTextView, defStyle, 0);
if (ta != null) {
ta.getValue(R.styleable.JustifiedTextView_text, tv);
if (tv.resourceId > 0) {
final String text = context.getString(tv.resourceId).replace("\n", "<br />");
loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/",
"<html><head>" +
"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"justified_textview.css\" />" +
"</head><body>" + text + "</body></html>",
"text/html", "UTF8", null);
setTransparentBackground();
}
}
}
}
public void setTransparentBackground() {
try {
setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
} catch (final NoSuchMethodError e) {
}
setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
setBackgroundDrawable(null);
setBackgroundResource(0);
}
}
We need to set the rendering to software in order to get transparent background on Android 3+. Hence the try-catch for older versions of Android.
Hope this helps!
PS: please not that it might be useful to add this to your whole activity on Android 3+ in order to get the expected behavior:
android:hardwareAccelerated="false"
While still not complete justified text, you can now balance line lengths using android:breakStrategy="balanced" from API 23 onwards
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:breakStrategy
I write my own class to solve this problem, Here it is Just you have to call the static justify function that takes two arguments
//MainActivity
package com.fawad.textjustification;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.graphics.Point;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;
import android.view.Display;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
static Point size;
static float density;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
size=new Point();
DisplayMetrics dm=new DisplayMetrics();
display.getMetrics(dm);
density=dm.density;
display.getSize(size);
TextView tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
Typeface typeface=Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(), "Roboto-Medium.ttf");
tv.setTypeface(typeface);
tv.setLineSpacing(0f, 1.2f);
tv.setTextSize(10*MainActivity.density);
//some random long text
String myText=getResources().getString(R.string.my_text);
tv.setText(myText);
TextJustification.justify(tv,size.x);
}
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
}
//TextJustificationClass
package com.fawad.textjustification;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class TextJustification {
public static void justify(TextView textView,float contentWidth) {
String text=textView.getText().toString();
Paint paint=textView.getPaint();
ArrayList<String> lineList=lineBreak(text,paint,contentWidth);
textView.setText(TextUtils.join(" ", lineList).replaceFirst("\\s", ""));
}
private static ArrayList<String> lineBreak(String text,Paint paint,float contentWidth){
String [] wordArray=text.split("\\s");
ArrayList<String> lineList = new ArrayList<String>();
String myText="";
for(String word:wordArray){
if(paint.measureText(myText+" "+word)<=contentWidth)
myText=myText+" "+word;
else{
int totalSpacesToInsert=(int)((contentWidth-paint.measureText(myText))/paint.measureText(" "));
lineList.add(justifyLine(myText,totalSpacesToInsert));
myText=word;
}
}
lineList.add(myText);
return lineList;
}
private static String justifyLine(String text,int totalSpacesToInsert){
String[] wordArray=text.split("\\s");
String toAppend=" ";
while((totalSpacesToInsert)>=(wordArray.length-1)){
toAppend=toAppend+" ";
totalSpacesToInsert=totalSpacesToInsert-(wordArray.length-1);
}
int i=0;
String justifiedText="";
for(String word:wordArray){
if(i<totalSpacesToInsert)
justifiedText=justifiedText+word+" "+toAppend;
else
justifiedText=justifiedText+word+toAppend;
i++;
}
return justifiedText;
}
}
//XML
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity"
>
<ScrollView
android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello_world" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
FILL_HORIZONTAL is equivalent to CENTER_HORIZONTAL.
You can see this code snippet in textview's source code:
case Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL:
case Gravity.FILL_HORIZONTAL:
return (mLayout.getLineWidth(0) - ((mRight - mLeft) -
getCompoundPaddingLeft() - getCompoundPaddingRight())) /
getHorizontalFadingEdgeLength();
There is a CustomView for this problem, this custom text view is support Justified Text View.
Loot at this: JustifiedTextView [1]
import java.util.ArrayList;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.view.View;
public class JustifiedTextView extends View {
String text;
ArrayList<Line> linesCollection = new ArrayList<Line>();
TextPaint textPaint;
Typeface font;
int textColor;
float textSize = 42f, lineHeight = 57f, wordSpacing = 15f, lineSpacing = 15f;
float onBirim, w, h;
float leftPadding, rightPadding;
public JustifiedTextView(Context context, String text) {
super(context);
this.text = text;
init();
}
private void init() {
textPaint = new TextPaint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
textColor = Color.BLACK;
}
@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
if (font != null) {
font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getContext().getAssets(), "font/Trykker-Regular.ttf");
textPaint.setTypeface(font);
}
textPaint.setColor(textColor);
int minw = getPaddingLeft() + getPaddingRight() + getSuggestedMinimumWidth();
w = resolveSizeAndState(minw, widthMeasureSpec, 1);
h = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
onBirim = 0.009259259f * w;
lineHeight = textSize + lineSpacing;
leftPadding = 3 * onBirim + getPaddingLeft();
rightPadding = 3 * onBirim + getPaddingRight();
textPaint.setTextSize(textSize);
wordSpacing = 15f;
Line lineBuffer = new Line();
this.linesCollection.clear();
String[] lines = text.split("\n");
for (String line : lines) {
String[] words = line.split(" ");
lineBuffer = new Line();
float lineWidth = leftPadding + rightPadding;
float totalWordWidth = 0;
for (String word : words) {
float ww = textPaint.measureText(word) + wordSpacing;
if (lineWidth + ww + (lineBuffer.getWords().size() * wordSpacing) > w) {// is
lineBuffer.addWord(word);
totalWordWidth += textPaint.measureText(word);
lineBuffer.setSpacing((w - totalWordWidth - leftPadding - rightPadding) / (lineBuffer.getWords().size() - 1));
this.linesCollection.add(lineBuffer);
lineBuffer = new Line();
totalWordWidth = 0;
lineWidth = leftPadding + rightPadding;
} else {
lineBuffer.setSpacing(wordSpacing);
lineBuffer.addWord(word);
totalWordWidth += textPaint.measureText(word);
lineWidth += ww;
}
}
this.linesCollection.add(lineBuffer);
}
setMeasuredDimension((int) w, (int) ((this.linesCollection.size() + 1) * lineHeight + (10 * onBirim)));
}
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
canvas.drawLine(0f, 10f, getMeasuredWidth(), 10f, textPaint);
float x, y = lineHeight + onBirim;
for (Line line : linesCollection) {
x = leftPadding;
for (String s : line.getWords()) {
canvas.drawText(s, x, y, textPaint);
x += textPaint.measureText(s) + line.spacing;
}
y += lineHeight;
}
}
public String getText() {
return text;
}
public void setText(String text) {
this.text = text;
}
public Typeface getFont() {
return font;
}
public void setFont(Typeface font) {
this.font = font;
}
public float getLineHeight() {
return lineHeight;
}
public void setLineHeight(float lineHeight) {
this.lineHeight = lineHeight;
}
public float getLeftPadding() {
return leftPadding;
}
public void setLeftPadding(float leftPadding) {
this.leftPadding = leftPadding;
}
public float getRightPadding() {
return rightPadding;
}
public void setRightPadding(float rightPadding) {
this.rightPadding = rightPadding;
}
public void setWordSpacing(float wordSpacing) {
this.wordSpacing = wordSpacing;
}
public float getWordSpacing() {
return wordSpacing;
}
public float getLineSpacing() {
return lineSpacing;
}
public void setLineSpacing(float lineSpacing) {
this.lineSpacing = lineSpacing;
}
class Line {
ArrayList<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
float spacing = 15f;
public Line() {
}
public Line(ArrayList<String> words, float spacing) {
this.words = words;
this.spacing = spacing;
}
public void setSpacing(float spacing) {
this.spacing = spacing;
}
public float getSpacing() {
return spacing;
}
public void addWord(String s) {
words.add(s);
}
public ArrayList<String> getWords() {
return words;
}
}
}
Add above class to your src folder and use this sample code to add to your layout:
JustifiedTextView jtv= new JustifiedTextView(getApplicationContext(), "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... ");
LinearLayout place = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.book_profile_content);
place.addView(jtv);
see here in the github [1]
Just import the two files "TextJustifyUtils.java" and "TextViewEx.java" in your project.
public class TextJustifyUtils {
// Please use run(...) instead
public static void justify(TextView textView) {
Paint paint = new Paint();
String[] blocks;
float spaceOffset = 0;
float textWrapWidth = 0;
int spacesToSpread;
float wrappedEdgeSpace;
String block;
String[] lineAsWords;
String wrappedLine;
String smb = "";
Object[] wrappedObj;
// Pull widget properties
paint.setColor(textView.getCurrentTextColor());
paint.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface());
paint.setTextSize(textView.getTextSize());
textWrapWidth = textView.getWidth();
spaceOffset = paint.measureText(" ");
blocks = textView.getText().toString().split("((?<=\n)|(?=\n))");
if (textWrapWidth < 20) {
return;
}
for (int i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++) {
block = blocks[i];
if (block.length() == 0) {
continue;
} else if (block.equals("\n")) {
smb += block;
continue;
}
block = block.trim();
if (block.length() == 0)
continue;
wrappedObj = TextJustifyUtils.createWrappedLine(block, paint,
spaceOffset, textWrapWidth);
wrappedLine = ((String) wrappedObj[0]);
wrappedEdgeSpace = (Float) wrappedObj[1];
lineAsWords = wrappedLine.split(" ");
spacesToSpread = (int) (wrappedEdgeSpace != Float.MIN_VALUE ? wrappedEdgeSpace
/ spaceOffset
: 0);
for (String word : lineAsWords) {
smb += word + " ";
if (--spacesToSpread > 0) {
smb += " ";
}
}
smb = smb.trim();
if (blocks[i].length() > 0) {
blocks[i] = blocks[i].substring(wrappedLine.length());
if (blocks[i].length() > 0) {
smb += "\n";
}
i--;
}
}
textView.setGravity(Gravity.LEFT);
textView.setText(smb);
}
protected static Object[] createWrappedLine(String block, Paint paint,
float spaceOffset, float maxWidth) {
float cacheWidth = maxWidth;
float origMaxWidth = maxWidth;
String line = "";
for (String word : block.split("\\s")) {
cacheWidth = paint.measureText(word);
maxWidth -= cacheWidth;
if (maxWidth <= 0) {
return new Object[] { line, maxWidth + cacheWidth + spaceOffset };
}
line += word + " ";
maxWidth -= spaceOffset;
}
if (paint.measureText(block) <= origMaxWidth) {
return new Object[] { block, Float.MIN_VALUE };
}
return new Object[] { line, maxWidth };
}
final static String SYSTEM_NEWLINE = "\n";
final static float COMPLEXITY = 5.12f; // Reducing this will increase
// efficiency but will decrease
// effectiveness
final static Paint p = new Paint();
public static void run(final TextView tv, float origWidth) {
String s = tv.getText().toString();
p.setTypeface(tv.getTypeface());
String[] splits = s.split(SYSTEM_NEWLINE);
float width = origWidth - 5;
for (int x = 0; x < splits.length; x++)
if (p.measureText(splits[x]) > width) {
splits[x] = wrap(splits[x], width, p);
String[] microSplits = splits[x].split(SYSTEM_NEWLINE);
for (int y = 0; y < microSplits.length - 1; y++)
microSplits[y] = justify(removeLast(microSplits[y], " "),
width, p);
StringBuilder smb_internal = new StringBuilder();
for (int z = 0; z < microSplits.length; z++)
smb_internal.append(microSplits[z]
+ ((z + 1 < microSplits.length) ? SYSTEM_NEWLINE
: ""));
splits[x] = smb_internal.toString();
}
final StringBuilder smb = new StringBuilder();
for (String cleaned : splits)
smb.append(cleaned + SYSTEM_NEWLINE);
tv.setGravity(Gravity.LEFT);
tv.setText(smb);
}
private static String wrap(String s, float width, Paint p) {
String[] str = s.split("\\s"); // regex
StringBuilder smb = new StringBuilder(); // save memory
smb.append(SYSTEM_NEWLINE);
for (int x = 0; x < str.length; x++) {
float length = p.measureText(str[x]);
String[] pieces = smb.toString().split(SYSTEM_NEWLINE);
try {
if (p.measureText(pieces[pieces.length - 1]) + length > width)
smb.append(SYSTEM_NEWLINE);
} catch (Exception e) {
}
smb.append(str[x] + " ");
}
return smb.toString().replaceFirst(SYSTEM_NEWLINE, "");
}
private static String removeLast(String s, String g) {
if (s.contains(g)) {
int index = s.lastIndexOf(g);
int indexEnd = index + g.length();
if (index == 0)
return s.substring(1);
else if (index == s.length() - 1)
return s.substring(0, index);
else
return s.substring(0, index) + s.substring(indexEnd);
}
return s;
}
private static String justifyOperation(String s, float width, Paint p) {
float holder = (float) (COMPLEXITY * Math.random());
while (s.contains(Float.toString(holder)))
holder = (float) (COMPLEXITY * Math.random());
String holder_string = Float.toString(holder);
float lessThan = width;
int timeOut = 100;
int current = 0;
while (p.measureText(s) < lessThan && current < timeOut) {
s = s.replaceFirst(" ([^" + holder_string + "])", " "
+ holder_string + "$1");
lessThan = p.measureText(holder_string) + lessThan
- p.measureText(" ");
current++;
}
String cleaned = s.replaceAll(holder_string, " ");
return cleaned;
}
private static String justify(String s, float width, Paint p) {
while (p.measureText(s) < width) {
s = justifyOperation(s, width, p);
}
return s;
}
}
and
public class TextViewEx extends TextView {
private Paint paint = new Paint();
private String[] blocks;
private float spaceOffset = 0;
private float horizontalOffset = 0;
private float verticalOffset = 0;
private float horizontalFontOffset = 0;
private float dirtyRegionWidth = 0;
private boolean wrapEnabled = false;
int left, top, right, bottom = 0;
private Align _align = Align.LEFT;
private float strecthOffset;
private float wrappedEdgeSpace;
private String block;
private String wrappedLine;
private String[] lineAsWords;
private Object[] wrappedObj;
private Bitmap cache = null;
private boolean cacheEnabled = false;
public TextViewEx(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
// set a minimum of left and right padding so that the texts are not too
// close to the side screen
// this.setPadding(10, 0, 10, 0);
}
public TextViewEx(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
// this.setPadding(10, 0, 10, 0);
}
public TextViewEx(Context context) {
super(context);
// this.setPadding(10, 0, 10, 0);
}
@Override
public void setPadding(int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.setPadding(left + 10, top, right + 10, bottom);
}
@Override
public void setDrawingCacheEnabled(boolean cacheEnabled) {
this.cacheEnabled = cacheEnabled;
}
public void setText(String st, boolean wrap) {
wrapEnabled = wrap;
super.setText(st);
}
public void setTextAlign(Align align) {
_align = align;
}
@SuppressLint("NewApi")
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
// If wrap is disabled then,
// request original onDraw
if (!wrapEnabled) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
return;
}
// Active canas needs to be set
// based on cacheEnabled
Canvas activeCanvas = null;
// Set the active canvas based on
// whether cache is enabled
if (cacheEnabled) {
if (cache != null) {
// Draw to the OS provided canvas
// if the cache is not empty
canvas.drawBitmap(cache, 0, 0, paint);
return;
} else {
// Create a bitmap and set the activeCanvas
// to the one derived from the bitmap
cache = Bitmap.createBitmap(getWidth(), getHeight(),
Config.ARGB_4444);
activeCanvas = new Canvas(cache);
}
} else {
// Active canvas is the OS
// provided canvas
activeCanvas = canvas;
}
// Pull widget properties
paint.setColor(getCurrentTextColor());
paint.setTypeface(getTypeface());
paint.setTextSize(getTextSize());
paint.setTextAlign(_align);
paint.setFlags(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
// minus out the paddings pixel
dirtyRegionWidth = getWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight();
int maxLines = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
int currentapiVersion = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
if (currentapiVersion >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
maxLines = getMaxLines();
}
int lines = 1;
blocks = getText().toString().split("((?<=\n)|(?=\n))");
verticalOffset = horizontalFontOffset = getLineHeight() - 0.5f; // Temp
// fix
spaceOffset = paint.measureText(" ");
for (int i = 0; i < blocks.length && lines <= maxLines; i++) {
block = blocks[i];
horizontalOffset = 0;
if (block.length() == 0) {
continue;
} else if (block.equals("\n")) {
verticalOffset += horizontalFontOffset;
continue;
}
block = block.trim();
if (block.length() == 0) {
continue;
}
wrappedObj = TextJustifyUtils.createWrappedLine(block, paint,
spaceOffset, dirtyRegionWidth);
wrappedLine = ((String) wrappedObj[0]);
wrappedEdgeSpace = (Float) wrappedObj[1];
lineAsWords = wrappedLine.split(" ");
strecthOffset = wrappedEdgeSpace != Float.MIN_VALUE ? wrappedEdgeSpace
/ (lineAsWords.length - 1)
: 0;
for (int j = 0; j < lineAsWords.length; j++) {
String word = lineAsWords[j];
if (lines == maxLines && j == lineAsWords.length - 1) {
activeCanvas.drawText("...", horizontalOffset,
verticalOffset, paint);
} else if (j == 0) {
// if it is the first word of the line, text will be drawn
// starting from right edge of textview
if (_align == Align.RIGHT) {
activeCanvas.drawText(word, getWidth()
- (getPaddingRight()), verticalOffset, paint);
// add in the paddings to the horizontalOffset
horizontalOffset += getWidth() - (getPaddingRight());
} else {
activeCanvas.drawText(word, getPaddingLeft(),
verticalOffset, paint);
horizontalOffset += getPaddingLeft();
}
} else {
activeCanvas.drawText(word, horizontalOffset,
verticalOffset, paint);
}
if (_align == Align.RIGHT)
horizontalOffset -= paint.measureText(word) + spaceOffset
+ strecthOffset;
else
horizontalOffset += paint.measureText(word) + spaceOffset
+ strecthOffset;
}
lines++;
if (blocks[i].length() > 0) {
blocks[i] = blocks[i].substring(wrappedLine.length());
verticalOffset += blocks[i].length() > 0 ? horizontalFontOffset
: 0;
i--;
}
}
if (cacheEnabled) {
// Draw the cache onto the OS provided
// canvas.
canvas.drawBitmap(cache, 0, 0, paint);
}
}
}
Now, if you use normal textView like:
<TextView
android:id="@+id/original"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/lorum_ipsum" />
Simply use
<yourpackagename.TextViewEx
android:id="@+id/changed"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/lorum_ipsum" />
Define a variable and set justify to be true,
TextViewEx changed = (TextViewEx) findViewById(R.id.changed);
changed.setText(getResources().getString(R.string.lorum_ipsum),true);
I think there are two options:
Use something like Pango that specializes in this via the NDK and render text to an OpenGL or other surface.
Use Paint.measureText() [1] and friends to get the lengths of words and lay them out manually on a Canvas in a custom view.
Android does not yet support full justification. We can use Webview and justify HTML instead of using textview. It works so fine. If you guys not clear, feel free to ask me :)
WebView transparent. I have a background image . - Mr.India
Just use this property in xml file
android:justificationMode="inter_word"
Simplay we can use android:justificationMode="inter_word"
<TextView
android:justificationMode="inter_word"
android:id="@+id/messageTv"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="@dimen/text_margin"
android:paddingTop="15sp"
android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.Material3.TitleMedium" />
You can use justificationMode as inter_word in xml. You have to remember that this attribute is available for api level 26 and higher. For that you can assign targetApi as o. The full code is given bellow
<com.google.android.material.textview.MaterialTextView
...
android:justificationMode="inter_word"
tools:targetApi="o" />
Please try this code for below 8.0
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:gravity="center|start"/>
For Compose
usage : TextAlign.Justify
Text(
text = body2,
textAlign = TextAlign.Justify,
modifier = Modifier.padding(16.dp, 8.dp, 16.dp, 16.dp)
)
}
