Is it possible to style the android fonts styles with leading and tracking?

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JoshuaBlr picture JoshuaBlr · Apr 11, 2011 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

Is it possible to have the followings in android font styling.

  1. Leading (the space vertically between lines of text - name comes from the physical piece of lead that used to be used in mechanical printing process to separate lines of text).

  2. Tracking (the horizontal space between each character).

If you have any ideas please share with me.

Answer

Sergey Glotov picture Sergey Glotov · Jun 13, 2011

  1. You can change leading by calling TextView's method setLineSpacing() or changing corresponding XML attributes of TextView in layout (android:lineSpacingExtra or android:lineSpacingMultiplier).

  2. As answered here:

AFAIK, you cannot adjust kerning in TextView. You may be able to adjust kerning if you draw the text on the Canvas yourself using the 2D graphics APIs.

Update: since API 21 there is an option to set kerning/tracking/letter spacing. You can call method setLetterSpacing() or set it in XML with attribute letterSpacing.

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