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README
KerningViews
KerningViews provides a set of views (currently only TextView
and Button
) which lets you adjust the spacing between the characters in the text of that view also know as Kerning.
Kerning is a common feature in design apps like Photoshop or Sketch, but Android natively doesn't allow Kerning. From API level 21, Android allows you to do this using setLetterSpacing
attribute , but there is no way to achieve this in pre-21 devices.
KerningViews provides a simple API to achieve this feature in TextView
and Button
text across all API levels in Android.
Screenshot
This screenshot is from the sample app showing different text with different spacing (kerning factor).
Download
This library is available in jCenter which is the default Maven repository used in Android Studio.
dependencies {
// other dependencies here
implementation 'com.andrognito.kerningview:kerningview:x.y.z'
}
Usage
You should see the sample app for complete usage details. You can either use these views and set the attribute via XML or programmatically change the kerning factor as required.
XML
Just use the KerningTextView
or KerningButton
in your XML layouts. If you do not put the kv_spacing
attribute then it will behave as a normal TextView with no letter spacing.
You can customize the letter spacing by using the kv_spacing
attribute with different kerning factor (supports floating point values).
<com.andrognito.kerningview.KerningTextView
android:id="@+id/text1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
android:text="@string/sample_text_1"
android:textSize="@dimen/text_size_xlarge"
app:kv_spacing="10" />
JAVA
Just reference the views from your layout and use the setter to change the letter spacing of the texts.
KerningTextView mText = (KerningTextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
mText.setKerningFactor(3.5f);
Contribution
This is a very simple and tiny library that solves one simple use case.But I would love to accept contributions to improve or add functionality to it. It is my first library too.
About The Author
Aritra Roy
Design-focussed Engineer. Full-stack Developer. Hardcore Android Geek. UI/UX Designer. Part-time Blogger.
License
Copyright 2016 aritraroy
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the KerningViews README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.