Why does TextView have end padding when multi line?

Question

If you have a TextView with layout_width=\"wrap_content\" and it has to wrap to a second line to contain the text, then it will size its width to use up all of the

Answer 1

I found the selected answer to be helpful, although it didn't quite account for padding. I combined the selected answer with this post's answer to come up with a view that works with padding. FYI, the other post's answer had a flaw where the view would sometimes get cut-off at the end by a few pixels.

public class TightTextView extends TextView {
  public TightTextView(Context context) {
    super(context);
  }

  public TightTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
  }

  public TightTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
  }

  @Override
  protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);

    int specModeW = MeasureSpec.getMode(widthMeasureSpec);
    if (specModeW != MeasureSpec.EXACTLY) {
      Layout layout = getLayout();
      if (layout != null) {
        int w = (int) Math.ceil(getMaxLineWidth(layout)) + getCompoundPaddingLeft() + getCompoundPaddingRight();
        if (w < getMeasuredWidth()) {
          super.onMeasure(MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(w, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST),
          heightMeasureSpec);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  private float getMaxLineWidth(Layout layout) {
    float max_width = 0.0f;
    int lines = layout.getLineCount();
    for (int i = 0; i < lines; i++) {
      if (layout.getLineWidth(i) > max_width) {
        max_width = layout.getLineWidth(i);
      }
    }
    return max_width;
  }
}