Android custom textview

Question

I need textview where first letter is big capatalized like on the photo. What is the best library or solution to achieve that?

The big letter is called a drop cap. https://android-arsenal.com/details/1/3664, https://github.com/novoda/spikes/tree/master/drop-cap — Nicolas, May 10 '17 at 11:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 10 '17 at 11:42

You can use SpannableString without using any library.

  String title = "This is a very good thing. You should try with that and suggest to others";
  final SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString(title);
  int position = 0;
  for (int i = 0, ei = title.length(); i < ei; i++) {
        char c = title.charAt(i);
        if ((c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') || (c >= '0' && c <= '9')) {
            position = i;
            break;
        }
    }

  spannableString.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(2.0f), position, position + 1, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
  txt.setText(spannableString, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

You can use your text in title variable.

It's good solution but first letter behavious not like on the image. — Евгений Речков, May 10 '17 at 13:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '17 at 12:10

1. Add following dependency in app/build.gradle

compile 'com.github.rpradal.lettrine:lettrine:release_number'

2. Use LettrineTextView

<com.github.rpradal.lettrine.LettrineTextView
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              app:lettrine_textColor="@android:color/holo_red_dark"
              app:lettrine_text="Lorem ipsum"
              app:lettrine_lettrineSize="3"
              app:lettrine_textSize="14sp" />

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Result will be as:

how to adjust line spacing in this lib? – Евгений Речков May 10 '17 at 13:08 — Евгений Речков, May 10 '17 at 13:08

Android custom textview

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