Question

I suspect that adding a certain letter/character to the beginning of my text will solve an alignment problem I am currently facing. Needless to say that I do not wish for this letter to appear.
Is there a way to tell a portion of the text to be invisible/transparent?
I reviewed the Spannable interface could not find anything related to visibility.

Thanks,
Rob

Answer 1

I suspect that adding a certain
letter/character to the beginning of
my text will solve an alignment
problem I am currently facing.

It is unrealistic for this technique to work for all screen sizes, all screen densities, and all font sizes.

Is there a way to tell a portion of
the text to be invisible/transparent?

You can tell a portion of the text to have the same color as the background, assuming you know what your background color is.