Android textview text get cut off on the sides with custom font

Question

This is what happens in the preview and on device:

TextView is nothing special, it just loads the custom font:

public class TestTextView extends App         


        

Answer 1

I have encountered the same problem and i found a one liner solution for thouse who are not using the TextView.shadowLayer.

this is based on the source code that [Dmitry Kopytov] brought here:

editTextOrTextView.setShadowLayer(editTextOrTextView.textSize, 0f, 0f, Color.TRANSPARENT)

that's it, now the canvas.clipRect in TextView.onDraw() won't cut off the curly font sides.