Provides a set of views which allows to adjust the spacing between the characters of that view, AKA, Kerning effect.

Aritra Roy

Last update: Aug 7, 2022

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TextView/EditText KerningViews

Overview

KerningViews

KerningViews provides a set of views (currently only TextView and Button) which lets you adjust the spacing between the characters in the text of that view also know as Kerning.

Kerning is a common feature in design apps like Photoshop or Sketch, but Android natively doesn't allow Kerning. From API level 21, Android allows you to do this using setLetterSpacing attribute , but there is no way to achieve this in pre-21 devices.

KerningViews provides a simple API to achieve this feature in TextView and Button text across all API levels in Android.

Screenshot

This screenshot is from the sample app showing different text with different spacing (kerning factor).

Download

This library is available in jCenter which is the default Maven repository used in Android Studio.

dependencies {
    // other dependencies here
    implementation 'com.andrognito.kerningview:kerningview:x.y.z'
}

Usage

You should see the sample app for complete usage details. You can either use these views and set the attribute via XML or programmatically change the kerning factor as required.

XML

Just use the KerningTextView or KerningButton in your XML layouts. If you do not put the kv_spacing attribute then it will behave as a normal TextView with no letter spacing.

You can customize the letter spacing by using the kv_spacing attribute with different kerning factor (supports floating point values).

<com.andrognito.kerningview.KerningTextView
       android:id="@+id/text1"
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
       android:text="@string/sample_text_1"
       android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_xlarge"
       app:kv_spacing="10" />

JAVA

Just reference the views from your layout and use the setter to change the letter spacing of the texts.

KerningTextView mText = (KerningTextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
mText.setKerningFactor(3.5f);

Contribution

This is a very simple and tiny library that solves one simple use case.But I would love to accept contributions to improve or add functionality to it. It is my first library too.

About The Author

Aritra Roy

Design-focussed Engineer. Full-stack Developer. Hardcore Android Geek. UI/UX Designer. Part-time Blogger.

License

Copyright 2016 aritraroy

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Comments

how to remove top and bottom padding?

Hello arita; thanks for making awesome library. I have faced some issues. I need to remove top and bottom padding for each text to achieve my design.

Here is my code. and Image is also a attached. <com.andrognito.kerningview.KerningTextView android:id="@+id/appCompatTextView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:fontFamily="@font/titillium_web_bold" android:text="@string/welcome" android:textColor="@color/colorWhite" android:textSize="30sp" app:fontFamily="@font/titillium_web_bold" app:kv_spacing="4" app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent" app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.50" app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent" app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/imageView_app_logo" app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.149" />

Hope you see this on your free time.

opened by shihabmi7 0
Closes #1 Don't allow `originalText` field to be null

TextView#init calls setText with the value "". Our init method then overrides this by checking attributes, which can be null, replacing originalText value "" with null. This causes getText() to return null when TextView implementation would return "".

opened by JoshuaJamesOng 0
KerningTextView#getText returns `null`

It seems KerningTextView#getText returns null in cases where TextView#getText would return "". This causes Espresso to crash as it never expects a null CharSequence.

opened by JoshuaJamesOng 0

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Provides a set of views which allows to adjust the spacing between the characters of that view, AKA, Kerning effect.

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Overview

KerningViews

Screenshot

Download

Usage

XML

JAVA

Contribution

About The Author

Aritra Roy

License

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Comments

how to remove top and bottom padding?

Closes #1 Don't allow `originalText` field to be null

KerningTextView#getText returns `null`

Releases(v1.1.0)

v1.1.0(Apr 16, 2018)

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