Add two space between TextView text

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I'm trying to convert TextView to Drawable to use it as a sticker in my app, but I have a problem, as you see in the picture below, The text becomes cut off from the right, to fix that I added two spaces like that:

When I add only one space like that textview.getText()+ " " I get this :

When I add " " +textview.getText() + " ",text disappears,I see only background :

after I do that, TextView not showing at all when I convert it to Drawable , here's the method to convert TextView to Drawable

 public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(View view) {
        Bitmap createBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getWidth(), view.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(createBitmap);
        view.layout(view.getLeft(), view.getTop(), view.getRight(), view.getBottom());
        view.draw(canvas);
        return createBitmap;
    }


textView.setText(" " + editText.getText() + " ");
                    Bitmap bitmap = loadBitmapFromView(textView);
                    loadSticker(bitmap);

XML :

               <TextView
                android:id="@+id/text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
                android:padding="20dp"
                android:scrollbars="vertical"
                android:shadowColor="#fff"
                android:shadowDx="4"
                android:shadowDy="-4"
                android:shadowRadius="1"
                android:text="Your Text Here"
                android:textColor="#000"
                android:textSize="25sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

@Ticherhaz thank you for your comment, No, I didn't mean the padding — Mouaad Abdelghafour AITALI, Jul 13 '19 at 15:01

Chrisvin Jem · Answer 1 · 2019-07-13T15:45:33.483

Edit - Try using non breaking spaces maybe.

textView.setText((" " + editText.getText() + " ").replace(" ","\u00a0"));

Have you tried alternate methods such as,

public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(View view) {
        Bitmap createBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getWidth(), view.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(createBitmap);
        view.layout(0, 0, view.getWidth(), view.getHeight());
        view.draw(canvas);
        return createBitmap;
    }

public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(View view) {
        Bitmap createBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getLayoutParams().getWidth(), view.getLayoutParams().getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(createBitmap);
        view.layout(0, 0, view.getLayoutParams().getWidth(), view.getLayoutParams().getHeight());
        view.draw(canvas);
        return createBitmap;
    }

public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(View view) {
        Bitmap createBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getMeasuredWidth(), view.getMeasuredHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(createBitmap);
        view.layout(0, 0, view.getMeasuredWidth(), view.getMeasuredHeight());
        view.draw(canvas);
        return createBitmap;
    }

public static Bitmap loadBitmapFromView(View view) {
        view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
        view.buildDrawingCache();
        Bitmap createBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getDrawingCache());
        return createBitmap;
    }

thank you so much for your answer, the issue is not with the way of converting the textView to bitmap, the problem is with the TextView.getText() for some reason when I add `" " + textview.getText().toString() + " "` the bitmap have no text — Mouaad Abdelghafour AITALI, Jul 13 '19 at 15:19
I'm sorry, I have updated my post please check it to understand me clearly — Mouaad Abdelghafour AITALI, Jul 13 '19 at 15:27
Hi, any updates on whether that worked?. Mark the answer as correct if it works, cheers. — Chrisvin Jem, Jul 18 '19 at 07:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '19 at 15:12

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Follow this answer to convert any View to Bitmap Convert View to Bitmap

answered Jul 13 '19 at 15:12

Ahmed Abdalla

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