Ordered lists inside an Android TextView

Question

I want to display an ordered list inside a TextView, for example:
1) item 1
2) item 2

Using the following layout:

Answer 1

This class handles numbering in TextView and EditText and scales the number depending on the size of the text:

import android.graphics.Canvas
import android.graphics.Paint
import android.text.Layout
import android.text.Spanned
import android.text.style.AbsoluteSizeSpan
import android.text.style.LeadingMarginSpan

/**
 * Paragraph numbering.
 *
 *
 * Android seems to add the leading margin for an empty paragraph to the previous paragraph
 * (]0, 4][4, 4] --> the leading margin of the second span is added to the ]0, 4] paragraph
 * regardless of the Spanned.flags) --> therefore we ignore the leading margin for the last,
 * empty paragraph unless it's the only one
 */
class NumberSpan(nr: Int, gapWidth: Int, isEmpty: Boolean, isFirst: Boolean, isLast: Boolean)
    : LeadingMarginSpan {

    private val mNr: Int = nr
    private val mGapWidth: Int = gapWidth
    private val mIgnoreSpan: Boolean = isEmpty && isLast && !isFirst

    private var mWidth: Float = 0.toFloat()

    val value: Boolean?
        get() = java.lang.Boolean.TRUE

    override fun getLeadingMargin(first: Boolean): Int {
        return if (mIgnoreSpan) 0 else Math.max(Math.round(mWidth + 2), mGapWidth)
    }

    override fun drawLeadingMargin(c: Canvas, p: Paint, x: Int, dir: Int, top: Int, baseline: Int, bottom: Int,
                                   text: CharSequence, start: Int, end: Int, first: Boolean, l: Layout) {

        val spanned = text as Spanned
        if (!mIgnoreSpan && spanned.getSpanStart(this) == start) {
            // set paint
            val oldStyle = p.style
            val oldTextSize = p.textSize
            p.style = Paint.Style.FILL
            val textSize = determineTextSize(spanned, start, end, oldTextSize)
            p.textSize = textSize
            mWidth = p.measureText(mNr.toString() + ".")

            // draw the number
            c.drawText(mNr.toString() + ".", x.toFloat(), baseline.toFloat(), p)

            // restore paint
            p.style = oldStyle
            p.textSize = oldTextSize
        }
    }

    private fun determineTextSize(spanned: Spanned, start: Int, end: Int, defaultTextSize: Float): Float {
        // If the text size is different from default use that to determine the indicator size
        // That is determined by finding the first visible character within the list item span
        // and checking its size
        val position = firstVisibleCharIndex(spanned, start, end)
        if (position >= 0) {
            val absoluteSizeSpans = spanned.getSpans(position, position, AbsoluteSizeSpan::class.java)
            if (absoluteSizeSpans.isNotEmpty()) {
                val absoluteSizeSpan = absoluteSizeSpans[absoluteSizeSpans.size - 1]
                return absoluteSizeSpan.size.toFloat()
            }
        }

        // If there are no spans or no visible characters yet use the default calculation
        return defaultTextSize
    }

    private fun firstVisibleCharIndex(spanned: Spanned, start: Int, end: Int): Int {
        var newStart = start
        while (newStart < end) {
            if (isVisibleChar(spanned[newStart])) {
                return newStart
            }
            newStart++
        }

        return -1
    }

    private fun isVisibleChar(c: Char): Boolean {
        return when (c) {
            '\u200B', '\uFFEF' -> false
            else -> true
        }
    }

}

The code is from this library https://github.com/1gravity/Android-RTEditor (translated from Java to Kotlin). I'm the author of that library.