Justify text in Android

Question

How to Justify paragraph in textview setText option? I am loading data from API and need to display paragraph as justified.

textv.setText(Html.fromHtml(text)); I have tried below in adapter but nothing works text = text + ""+paragrph +"

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Is it possible other than webview ?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 16 '16 at 15:17

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You cannot set the property like gravity in TextView. You can either use WebView or other open source libraries. Android does not support text justification yet.

answered Nov 16 '16 at 15:17

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '16 at 15:45

You need to use WebView to justify text. Here is it an example:

    WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
    webView .setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
    String header = "<html><head><style type=\"text/css\">@font-face {font-family: MyFont;src: url(\"file:///android_asset/fonts/Walkway-Ultrabold.ttf\")}body {font-family: MyFont;font-size: medium;text-align: justify;}</style></head><body>";
    String footer = "</body></html>";
    String text_web_view = header + message + footer;
    webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, text_web_view, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

This code set also a font placed into assets/fonts folder.

Justify text in Android

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