How to change letter spacing in a Textview?

Question

How can i change letter spacing in a textview? Will it help if I have HTML text in it (I cannot use webview in my code).

P.S. I\'m using my own typeface in the textv

Answer 1

check out android:textScaleX

Depending on how much spacing you need, this might help. That's the only thing remotely related to letter-spacing in the TextView.

Edit: please see @JerabekJakub's response below for an updated, better method to do this starting with api 21 (Lollipop)

Answer 2

after API >=21 there is inbuild method provided by TextView called setLetterSpacing

check this for more