environment: Android 4.2
layout/activity_main.xml
<EditText
android:id="@+id/et_content"
android:background="#AAAAAA"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:textSize="40sp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="left|top" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
Testing 1 (SUCCESS! has effect):
SpannableStringBuilder spanText = SpannableStringBuilder.valueOf("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz");
MaskFilterSpan maskFilterSpan = new MaskFilterSpan(new BlurMaskFilter(3, Blur.OUTER));
spanText.setSpan(maskFilterSpan, 0, spanText.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
etContent.setText(spanText);
Testing 2 (Failure! no effect, Why ??? ):
String str = etContent.getText().toString();
SpannableStringBuilder spanText = SpannableStringBuilder.valueOf(str);
MaskFilterSpan maskFilterSpan = new MaskFilterSpan(new BlurMaskFilter(3, Blur.OUTER));
spanText.setSpan(maskFilterSpan, 0, etContent.length(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
etContent.setText(spanText);
Difference is that the second paragraph of the code is the data obtained from EditText. second code use String str = etContent.getText().toString(); I tried before the first piece of code add the code editText.setText("123456"), and found also failed blur effect.
Who can help me?