Android Text Samples

These samples show how to work with text in Android.

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The TextStyling Java and Kotlin samples show how to style text using spans.

The RoundedBackground sample shows how to draw a rounded corner background on a text that extends across one or multiple lines, supporting right-to-left text also.

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Support

• Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android-text

If you've found an error in this sample, please file an issue: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-text/issues

Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted by forking this project and submitting a pull request through GitHub.

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