Do not wrap text in Android TextView in period abbreviation

Question

Is there a way to control where TextView wants to wrap its text? The problem I am facing is that she wants to wrap in periods - so a line like "Available in the USA and Canada" can wrap after a period between U and S. Is there a way to tell TextView if there is no period and space or any software way to control the wrapper?

Answer 1

I ended up writing my own algorithm to split text only into spaces. I originally used the breakText Paint method, but there were some problems (which can actually be resolved in this version of the code, but that's OK). This is not my best piece of code, and it can definitely be cleaned up a bit, but it works. Since I override TextView , I just call it from onSizeChanged to provide a valid width.

private static void breakManually(TextView tv, Editable editable) { int width = tv.getWidth() - tv.getPaddingLeft() - tv.getPaddingRight(); if(width == 0) { // Can't break with a width of 0. return false; } Paint p = tv.getPaint(); float[] widths = new float[editable.length()]; p.getTextWidths(editable.toString(), widths); float curWidth = 0.0f; int lastWSPos = -1; int strPos = 0; final char newLine = '\n'; final String newLineStr = "\n"; boolean reset = false; int insertCount = 0; //Traverse the string from the start position, adding each character's //width to the total until: //* A whitespace character is found. In this case, mark the whitespace //position. If the width goes over the max, this is where the newline //will be inserted. //* A newline character is found. This resets the curWidth counter. //* curWidth > width. Replace the whitespace with a newline and reset //the counter. while(strPos < editable.length()) { curWidth += widths[strPos]; char curChar = editable.charAt(strPos); if(((int) curChar) == ((int) newLine)) { reset = true; } else if(Character.isWhitespace(curChar)) { lastWSPos = strPos; } else if(curWidth > width && lastWSPos >= 0) { editable.replace(lastWSPos, lastWSPos + 1, newLineStr); insertCount++; strPos = lastWSPos; lastWSPos = -1; reset = true; } if(reset) { curWidth = 0.0f; reset = false; } strPos++; } if(insertCount != 0) { tv.setText(editable); } } 

Answer 2

There is a spannable called WrapTogetherSpan. There is no documentation, but it seems that the text inside should not end.