SpannableString with background ignores last spaces

Question

Using this example, I implemented my own RoundedBackgroundSpan.

The problem is that I need to add some padding to the background, so I'm using spaces (" "), and when the spanned string happens to be the last string on the row, last spaces are ignored.

I checked and in the overriden draw function, the end value is exactly 2 characters smaller (for the two ignored spaces).
If after the spaces I add any other character, the background gets spanned correctly.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try a unicode space \u0020 at the end of your string rather than a regular space

Answer 2

If you load the text from html, you can use   to display spaces

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp