Is there any alternatives of letterSpacing attribute for EditText in API level 20 or below

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We use letterSpacing attribute in EditText to define the spacing between letters like .

But as per documentation, This was only introduced in API level 21 or above, If we try to use it in lower API level version, It shows rendering problem directly as in this picture.

Is there any alternatives for letterSpacing to use in EditText before API level 20 ?

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It was marked as duplicate question but what I want to notify is android:textScaleX attribute and android:letterSpacing attribute is different.

Let's take an example by adding these two attributes in EditText

The result of adding android:letterSpacing is

And the result of adding android:textScaleX is

HI. check out this for (before API 21) : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5133548/how-to-change-letter-spacing-in-a-textview — Mit Bhatt, Feb 17 '16 at 07:19
@MitBhatt Once this question was marked as duplicate with the question you shared now. Again I edited the question and its re-opened now. please See whats different between them in edit section. — Shree Krishna, Feb 17 '16 at 08:30
Check the Answer of Bart Burg in that link. that's why this Question is duplicate. — Mit Bhatt, Feb 17 '16 at 11:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '16 at 09:02

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Sorry you couldn't adjust letterSpacing in Api before 21 but you can adjust it if you draw text on Canvas using 2D graphics APIs.

answered Feb 16 '16 at 09:02

Salah Nour ElDin

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Is there any alternatives of letterSpacing attribute for EditText in API level 20 or below

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