Added in API level 1

MetricAffectingSpan

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Kotlin |Java

abstract class MetricAffectingSpan : CharacterStyle, UpdateLayout

kotlin.Any
↳	android.text.style.CharacterStyle
	↳	android.text.style.MetricAffectingSpan

Known Direct Subclasses AbsoluteSizeSpan, LocaleSpan, RelativeSizeSpan, ReplacementSpan, ScaleXSpan, StyleSpan, SubscriptSpan, SuperscriptSpan, TextAppearanceSpan, TypefaceSpan AbsoluteSizeSpan A span that changes the size of the text it's attached to. LocaleSpan Changes the Locale of the text to which the span is attached. RelativeSizeSpan Uniformly scales the size of the text to which it's attached by a certain proportion. ReplacementSpan ScaleXSpan Scales horizontally the size of the text to which it's attached by a certain factor. StyleSpan Span that allows setting the style of the text it's attached to. SubscriptSpan The span that moves the position of the text baseline lower. SuperscriptSpan The span that moves the position of the text baseline higher. TextAppearanceSpan Sets the text appearance using the given TextAppearance attributes. TypefaceSpan Span that updates the typeface of the text it's attached to.

Known Indirect Subclasses DynamicDrawableSpan, ImageSpan DynamicDrawableSpan Span that replaces the text it's attached to with a Drawable that can be aligned with the bottom or with the baseline of the surrounding text. ImageSpan Span that replaces the text it's attached to with a Drawable that can be aligned with the bottom or with the baseline of the surrounding text.

The classes that affect character-level text formatting in a way that changes the width or height of characters extend this class.

Summary

Public constructors
MetricAffectingSpan()

Public methods
open MetricAffectingSpan!	getUnderlying() Returns "this" for most MetricAffectingSpans, but for MetricAffectingSpans that were generated by wrap, returns the underlying MetricAffectingSpan.
abstract Unit	updateMeasureState(textPaint: TextPaint) Classes that extend MetricAffectingSpan implement this method to update the text formatting in a way that can change the width or height of characters.

Inherited functions

From class CharacterStyle Unit updateDrawState(tp: TextPaint!) CharacterStyle! wrap(cs: CharacterStyle!) A given CharacterStyle can only applied to a single region of a given Spanned. If you need to attach the same CharacterStyle to multiple regions, you can use this method to wrap it with a new object that will have the same effect but be a distinct object so that it can also be attached without conflict.

Public constructors

MetricAffectingSpan

MetricAffectingSpan()

Public methods

getUnderlying

Added in API level 1

open fun getUnderlying(): MetricAffectingSpan!

Returns "this" for most MetricAffectingSpans, but for MetricAffectingSpans that were generated by wrap, returns the underlying MetricAffectingSpan.

updateMeasureState

Added in API level 1

abstract fun updateMeasureState(textPaint: TextPaint): Unit

Classes that extend MetricAffectingSpan implement this method to update the text formatting in a way that can change the width or height of characters.

Parameters
textPaint	TextPaint: the paint used for drawing the text This value cannot be null.