How LineSpace Affects StaticLayout Height in One Line Text

Question

Consider this simple example:

I have a single line text like this: "Hello"

I wanna measure this text using StaticLayout. So I wrote something like this:

StaticLayout layout = new StaticLayout("Hello", myTextView.getPaint(), myTextView.getWidth(), Layout.Alignment.NORMAL, 1, lineSpace, false);

In above code I changed lineSpace variable in a for loop and every time log the layout's height:

for(int lineSpace=0; lineSpace<20;lineSpace++){
    StaticLayout layout = new StaticLayout("Hello", myTextView.getPaint(), myTextView.getWidth(), Layout.Alignment.NORMAL, 1, lineSpace, false);

    Log.d("TAG", "layout height: " + layout.getHeight());
}

When I run this code on device with android M layout't height doesn't changed with multiple values of lineSpace. But in lower android versions layout's height changed with line space respectively.

Although when your text is more than one line ,StaticLayout consider line space between two lines. But it seems Android M doesn't consider line space for last line but lower Android versions does.

My question is this: After what version of android StaticLayout consider line space for last line? Can I wrote something like this:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
    // in this version StaticLayout don't consider line space for last line
} else {
    // in this version StaticLayout consider line space for last line
}

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '17 at 14:03

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I did some quick digging in the source code, seems to be that this part is the culprit:

    if (needMultiply && !lastLine) {
        double ex = (below - above) * (spacingmult - 1) + spacingadd;
        if (ex >= 0) {
            extra = (int)(ex + EXTRA_ROUNDING);
        } else {
            extra = -(int)(-ex + EXTRA_ROUNDING);
        }
    } else {
        extra = 0;
    }

Older versions are missing the !lastLine condition and thus also add the spacing to the last line.

The condition was added in this commit, which, if my github foo doesn't fail me, should be included starting with Android 5.

Apparently, just like the commit mentions, this only affects single line texts, for multiline texts the height seems to be calculated correctly. So an easy fix might be to check whether the text only has a single line (using getLineCount()) and if the Android version is less than 5, and if so substract the line spacing once.

answered Jan 18 '17 at 14:03

Timo Ohr

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I doubt about Android 5, but it seems that line count doesn't affect on last line extra space. I've done some tests about it. – Hojjat Jan 18 '17 at 14:37
It seems that starting at Android 5 line space doesn't considered for last line. Thank you – Hojjat Jan 18 '17 at 14:41
I've posted some questions about ImageSpan and StaticLayout in below links, but no one answered me yet. If you don't mind please take a look at these questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41671028/how-textsize-and-linespace-affects-imagespan – Hojjat Jan 18 '17 at 14:43
And this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41422461/imagespan-size-measurement-with-textview-and-staticlayout – Hojjat Jan 18 '17 at 14:43

How LineSpace Affects StaticLayout Height in One Line Text

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