Is there any way to insert an ImageSpan in a TextView without disrupting the text?

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yuttadhammo picture yuttadhammo · Nov 11, 2014 · Viewed 17.9k times · Source

It seems that in order to add an ImageSpan to a Spannable in Android, I have to actually replace some text with the Image. For example:

Spannable span = new SpannableString("Foo imageplace Bar!");
Drawable android = context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.android);
android.setBounds(0, 0, 32,32);
ImageSpan image = new ImageSpan(android, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BASELINE);
span.setSpan(image, 4, 14, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

This will replace "imageplace" with the image. Because I'm dealing with complex multi-span text and reiteration, it's a bit of a headache to insert meaningless text at each place I want the android icon. But it looks like if start and end of span are the same, the image won't be included. Is there any way around this?

Answer

lovefish picture lovefish · Apr 20, 2015

Maybe you can add an additional space to be replaced by the ImageSpan. For example, 

Spannable span = new SpannableString("Foo  imageplace Bar!");
Drawable android = context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.android);
android.setBounds(0, 0, 32,32);
ImageSpan image = new ImageSpan(android, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BASELINE);
span.setSpan(image, 3, 4, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

And you will find the image replace the additional space without disrupting the text.

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