Draw white Background behind each character in Textview android

Question

I am developing an Android application that needs to have this kind of TextView as shown in the image, actually I am trying to add this highlighting effect by using various shadow properties in TextView but nothing is working. In my image i need to have white background behind each character.

Here is my TextView code:

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/textpage"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
        android:gravity="center|center_horizontal"
        android:shadowColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:shadowDx="-0.5"
        android:shadowDy="0.5"
        android:shadowRadius="10"
        android:text="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. "
        android:textColor="#050505"
        android:textSize="16sp"
        android:layout_marginTop="30dp" />

Here is TextView image that i need to make:

Textview

You could [load a custom font](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3651086/android-using-custom-font) that has your desired look. [This site](http://www.fontspace.com/category/bitmap) has some nice ones that I use in games. — Jax, Oct 07 '15 at 15:45
Seems same as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3182393/android-textview-outline-text — Ravikant Paudel, Oct 07 '15 at 16:18
i don't have .ttf file of this font and shadow effect is also not working for me. — Sidhi Tare, Oct 07 '15 at 16:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

you can use like in case of changing font

 textView.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT, Typeface.BOLD);

and other way is you can downloadAnyFont.ttf file and put it in asset folder and use like as this

You can download your specified font from Free fonts
//Download the requied font

Typeface type=Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(),
    "YourDownloadedfont.ttf");  // Use Download font and paste name at YourDownloadedfont.ttf
textView.setTypeface(type, null);

This may be the real solution for you:

please view these link for detail
MagicTextView
Customize Android Fonts
Android textview outline text

These will give you idea.
May this solve your problem.

Draw white Background behind each character in Textview android

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