Letter Spacing on EditText is not working

Question

I want to set letter spacing on a EditText but it is not working.

I tried to create the EditText like this:

 <EditText
                android:id="@+id/pin"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="@dimen/input_text_height"
                android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_extra_large"
                local:MvxBind="Text PinCode"
                android:maxLength="6"
                android:layout_marginRight="32dp"
                android:layout_marginLeft="32dp"
                android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
                android:padding="6dp"
                android:gravity="center"
                android:textColor="@drawable/editText_textColorState"
                android:background="@drawable/editText_borderOnFocus"
                android:letterSpacing="10"/>

The letter spacing attribute is not working. What am I doing wrong?

refer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5133548/how-to-change-letter-spacing-in-a-textview — sasikumar, Jul 22 '19 at 07:07
That`s what I am doing. I am not running the app on Emulator — Kam, Jul 22 '19 at 07:07
Something to do with it having ** before and after it I reckon! — Mike Poole, Jul 22 '19 at 07:09
letter-spacing TeaxtView property, not Edittext. Please check on android documentation. — BlackBlind, Jul 22 '19 at 07:11

Saran Sankaran · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-18T15:16:25.610

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letterSpacing need to be a float value. Try android:letterSpacing="0.50"

Like @mike points out Android Studio does render letter spacing in preview since V4.0

Old Answer

Android Studio doesn't render the letter spacing in the preview, so you will have to manual run it on a device to view the changes.

edited Aug 18 '20 at 15:16

answered Jul 22 '19 at 07:10

Saran Sankaran

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Just a little note for future readers: in Android Studio 4.0.1 and beyond letter spacing is updated in real time in the preview – Michele Aug 15 '20 at 10:20

Rahul Khurana · Answer 2 · 2019-07-22T07:15:07.543

In the official documentation, they've mentioned that it requires a float value instead of an integer.

android:letterSpacing Text letter-spacing.

May be a floating point value, such as "1.2".

android:letterSpacing="1.2"

So, your EditText should look like this

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/pin"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/input_text_height"
    android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_extra_large"
    local:MvxBind="Text PinCode"
    android:maxLength="6"
    android:layout_marginRight="32dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="32dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:padding="6dp"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:textColor="@drawable/editText_textColorState"
    android:background="@drawable/editText_borderOnFocus"
    android:letterSpacing="10.0"/>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 22 '19 at 07:31

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You have to ommit units, type just value:

android:letterSpacing="1.2"

For some reason letterSpacing wasn't changing in the AS preview. I had to actually run the app on a physical device to see the change

answered Jul 22 '19 at 07:31

Kanwarpreet Singh

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Letter Spacing on EditText is not working

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