Hyphenation in Android

Question

As part of internationalizing an Android application I have come across the need to dynamically word wrap or hyphenate at the right position.

All my strings are exte

Answer 1

The question is old but just found best solution for me:

I have to say i'm programming in Xamarin, so the code is in C# but should not be a problem to port into java.

I used the NHyphenator Logic (https://github.com/alkozko/NHyphenator) for Inserting SoftHyphens(UTF8 Symbol - 0x00AD) so the Textview do hyphenation at the right place.

To get Hyphenation for other languages i used the openoffice Dictionaries. e.g. i had to get Hyphenation for german-swiss language

http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/search?f[0]=field_project_tags%3A157 1. Download the extension 2. Unzip it with winrar or something else 3. Copy the hyph_xx_xx/hyph_xx_xx.dic file 4. Add new Language to the Hyphenator class

NHyphernator resource files are declared as: hyph-xx-xx.pat.txt --> content of the dic file without comments hyph-xx-xx.hyp.txt --> file which contains word-exceptions where the logic for hyphening does not give correct results

If anyone wants the portable Library for Xamarin just tell, i can upload it.

EDIT:

The breakstrategy should be set to Balanced in TExtview. API Level > 23, else don't use breakstrategy.

EDIT:

Here's the mono/xamarin code: https://github.com/sma84/NHyphenator-Mono