Android - How to add different spacing for different characters in a TextView?

Asked Oct 31 '19 at 04:47

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On Android, one can use the android:letterSpacing XML attribute or the setLetterSpacing(float letterSpacing) method to change the spacing between ALL characters in a TextView.

Is there a way to change the spacing per character? For instance, for the string: 123456789 I want the TextView to display it like this:

12 3456 789

In other words, I just want to change the spacing between the 2nd and the 3rd characters and between the 6th and the 7th characters.

asked Oct 31 '19 at 04:47

Bitcoin Cash - ADA enthusiast

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Insert a space into the string. – Gabe Sechan Oct 31 '19 at 04:54
Seems like you want phone number formatting, check this library https://github.com/google/libphonenumber – Jaiprakash Soni Oct 31 '19 at 05:00
That was just an example guys... In iOS you can set up different spacing per character. I wonder if you can do the same in Android. I can't find anything in the docs about it. – Bitcoin Cash - ADA enthusiast Oct 31 '19 at 05:03
You can use regex as per your spacing, to convert your original string. – Sneha Sarkar Oct 31 '19 at 05:43

Android - How to add different spacing for different characters in a TextView?

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