textview cutting off a letter in android

Question

this is a screen shot from my android. the text is

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem but with EditText when used some fonts. My solution works also with TextView:

1. Use padding

2. As TextView using Canvas.clipRect(float, float, float, float) in onDraw method to crop - create custom Canvas class and override this method (leave it empty).

3. Next сreate custom TextView and override two methods onSizeChanged and onDraw.

In onSizeChanged create bitmap with the size of TextView and our custom Canvas.

In onDraw first draw in bitmap by passing our custom Canvas to method super.onDraw. After that draw bitmap to target сanvas.

More detailed in my answer to the similar question here