Empty spans are not considered in text layout/rendering process.

Bug http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14786

Empty spans are affecting the text before and after them. See the
comment in TextUtils.removeEmptySpans for details.

Change-Id: I40376c32fd56a17efde6219f9b2593e4b4ab1ba1

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/java/android/text/StaticLayout.java b/core/java/android/text/StaticLayout.java
index a826a97ff889..9e48effa00ac 100644
--- a/core/java/android/text/StaticLayout.java
+++ b/core/java/android/text/StaticLayout.java
@@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ public class StaticLayout extends Layout {
                     } else {
                         MetricAffectingSpan[] spans =
                             spanned.getSpans(spanStart, spanEnd, MetricAffectingSpan.class);
+                        spans = TextUtils.removeEmptySpans(spans, spanned,
+                                MetricAffectingSpan.class);
                         measured.addStyleRun(paint, spans, spanLen, fm);
                     }
                 }