Android 4.2 on Nexus 7: canvas.drawText() not working correctly

Question

I\'m facing a serious issue with my Application, published on Google Play and apparently working fine on all versions of Android except for > 4.0.

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Answer 1

I had a similar problem, trying to make a view with custom letter spacing so I just made this 2 methods, hope someone finds them helpful.

/**
 * Draws a text in the canvas with spacing between each letter.
 * Basically what this method does is it split's the given text into individual letters
 * and draws each letter independently using Canvas.drawText with a separation of
 * {@code spacingX} between each letter.
 * @param canvas the canvas where the text will be drawn
 * @param text the text what will be drawn
 * @param left the left position of the text
 * @param top the top position of the text
 * @param paint holds styling information for the text
 * @param spacingPx the number of pixels between each letter that will be drawn
 */
public static void drawSpacedText(Canvas canvas, String text, float left, float top, Paint paint, float spacingPx){

    float currentLeft = left;

    for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++) {
        String c = text.charAt(i)+"";
        canvas.drawText(c, currentLeft, top, paint);
        currentLeft += spacingPx;
        currentLeft += paint.measureText(c);
    }
}

/**
 * returns the width of a text drawn by drawSpacedText
 */
public static float getSpacedTextWidth(Paint paint, String text, float spacingX){
    return paint.measureText(text) + spacingX * ( text.length() - 1 );
}