Altering line wrap behavior
android, textview, word-wrap
Solution
Don't know if you have found an answer to it but you can use unicode to help you out.
there is a non-break space character, so you will need to replace all the spaces you want to be unbreakable with this character (\u00A0)
for an example
String text = "Hello World";
text.replace(' ', '\u00A0');
textView.setText(text);
by the way I've looked for a span solution and couldn't find one, WrapTogetherSpan is just an interface so it wouldn't work...
but with this method I'm sure you could make a custom unbreakable span if you want.
Problem
I can use Spannable in TextViews to create spans with different looks, underlines, strikethroughs and such. How can I do the same to alter line wrapping behavior? In particular, I don't want an email address to wrap in the middle, I want it to act like one word. I tried WrapTogetherSpan, but I couldn't get it to work. It looks like it is only used by DynamicLayout, and I could not force the TextView to use DynamicLayout. ``` <TextView android:id="@+id/merchant_email_field" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textSize="@dimen/account_setting_email" android:gravity="center" android:bufferType="spannable" android:maxLines="2" android:ellipsize="end" /> ``` How I'm setting the spannable: ``` WrapTogetherSpan TOGETHER_SPAN = new WrapTogetherSpan() {}; String collectedString = getString(R.string.email_sentence, userEmail); int emailOffset = collectedString.indexOf(userEmail); Spannable emailSpannable = Spannable.Factory.getInstance() .newSpannable(collectedString); emailSpannable.setSpan(TOGETHER_SPAN, emailOffset, emailOffset + userEmail.length(), Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); textView.setText(emailSpannable) ```