Text justification library in Java [duplicate]

Question

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Can i set property of Textview like justify?

I'm writing an android app which needs text justification, which isn't supported natively, and I don't think using a WebView is going to work because of font and text sizes in relation to screen resolution and dimensions. With this in mind I'm going to write a custom view which extends the TextView which will do text justification and was wondering if anybody knows of any code I can look at which does this already to save me some time. Any other helpful advice would be greatly appreciated too.

Characterize

Depeding on what kind of justification we're talking about - you can manage quite a lot by just using the android:gravity attribute. – Reiser

Unfortunately I need full text justification with hyphening, if possible. – Characterize

see also #1293075 – Mushy

Answer 1

UPDATED

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.X to 5.X

SETUP

// Please visit Github for latest setup instructions.

SCREENSHOT

Colene

and the origWidth argument would be relative to? :) – Bonniebonns

Good question. Well its been a while since I looked at it. Let me see what I can explain to you though. So when I initally wrote this, I thought that the characterWidthnumberofcharacters=width. But for some unknown reason, that is NOT true. It is infact characterWidthnumberofcharacters+[X]=width in which I don't know what [X] is. But I know that there is no direct correlation between [X] and the width. I will leave it to you to get this answer :D Please edit my response if you find out. – Colene

The reason is because the characters have varying width. For example, with some fonts the ! symbol is slimmer than the @ symbol. If you want to have characterWidth*numberofcharacters=width, then you'd need a fixed-width font. If you're not convinced, look at a fixed-width font. You'll see that the ! character has space to the left and right of it, while the @ symbol does not. – Modiolus