Android TextView Justify Text

Question

How do you get the text of a TextView to be Justified (with text flush on the left- and right- hand sides)?

I found a possible solution here, but it do

Answer 1

I found a way to solve this problem, but this may not be very grace, but the effect is not bad.

Its principle is to replace the spaces of each line to the fixed-width ImageSpan (the color is transparent).

public static void justify(final TextView textView) {

    final AtomicBoolean isJustify = new AtomicBoolean(false);

    final String textString = textView.getText().toString();

    final TextPaint textPaint = textView.getPaint();

    final SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder();

    textView.post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {

            if (!isJustify.get()) {

                final int lineCount = textView.getLineCount();
                final int textViewWidth = textView.getWidth();

                for (int i = 0; i < lineCount; i++) {

                    int lineStart = textView.getLayout().getLineStart(i);
                    int lineEnd = textView.getLayout().getLineEnd(i);

                    String lineString = textString.substring(lineStart, lineEnd);

                    if (i == lineCount - 1) {
                        builder.append(new SpannableString(lineString));
                        break;
                    }

                    String trimSpaceText = lineString.trim();
                    String removeSpaceText = lineString.replaceAll(" ", "");

                    float removeSpaceWidth = textPaint.measureText(removeSpaceText);
                    float spaceCount = trimSpaceText.length() - removeSpaceText.length();

                    float eachSpaceWidth = (textViewWidth - removeSpaceWidth) / spaceCount;

                    SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString(lineString);
                    for (int j = 0; j < trimSpaceText.length(); j++) {
                        char c = trimSpaceText.charAt(j);
                        if (c == ' ') {
                            Drawable drawable = new ColorDrawable(0x00ffffff);
                            drawable.setBounds(0, 0, (int) eachSpaceWidth, 0);
                            ImageSpan span = new ImageSpan(drawable);
                            spannableString.setSpan(span, j, j + 1, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                        }
                    }

                    builder.append(spannableString);
                }

                textView.setText(builder);
                isJustify.set(true);
            }
        }
    });
}

I put the code on GitHub: https://github.com/twiceyuan/TextJustification

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