ForegroundColorSpan is not applied to ReplacementSpan

Question

I\'m trying to utilize ReplacementSpans to format the input in a EditText Field (without modifying the content):

public class SpacerSpan extends ReplacementS         


        

Answer 1

CommonWare pointed me in the right direction. It seems like ReplacementSpans are rendered before any CharacterStyleSpan are consulted [1]

A possible (but ugly) fix is to implement a custom ForegroundColorSpan that extends MetricAffectingSpan (MetricAffectingSpans are consulted before ReplacementSpans are drawn [1]).

public class FontColorSpan extends MetricAffectingSpan {

    private int mColor;

    public FontColorSpan(int color) {
        mColor = color;
    }

    @Override
    public void updateMeasureState(TextPaint textPaint) {
        textPaint.setColor(mColor);
    }
    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint textPaint) {
        textPaint.setColor(mColor);
    }
} 

I guess this is a bug that should be reported?

[1]http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/5.0.2_r1/android/text/TextLine.java#936