Question

Is it possible to have a black background around each letter (not for the whole word) in a word in a TextView?

Answer 1

The only way I can think of is by using html in your textView.

Put your text in HTML and then do something like this

TextView contactWeb1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.contactWeb1);
String desc = "<font color=\"red\"><a href='http://www.mysite.com/'>Visit my site</a></font>";
contactWeb1.setText(Html.fromHtml(desc));

The above code is from the 3rd link

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