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Text Clipping in Textview

I am adding Text in textview but it clipping at start and I have tried adding padding, margin start and textalignment center or end.
XML CODE
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#eb2f06"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:id="#+id/c1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="#dimen/dim_2"
android:visibility="invisible"
app:cardBackgroundColor="#ffeb3b"
app:cardCornerRadius="#dimen/dim_7"
app:cardElevation="#dimen/dim_5"
app:cardUseCompatPadding="true">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="#dimen/dim_5">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtquote"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_margin="#dimen/dim_4"
android:fontFamily="#font/dancingbold"
android:padding="#dimen/dim_10"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="35sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtauthor"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginEnd="#dimen/dim_3"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/dim_3"
android:fontFamily="#font/dancingbold"
android:gravity="end"
android:padding="#dimen/dim_5"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="30sp" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
Setting Content in java
Java Code
txtquote.setText("\"" + arrquote.get(count).quote + "\"");
txtauthor.setText("~" + arrquote.get(count).author);
I have tried using hair space and \u0020
Firstly I thought it is because of my phone small screen but when I tried this in many different screen size phones, It still has the same problem

This is about the font properties(italic) and how android can measure/handle them. With that font afaik you won't be able get rid of clipping.

Try puting this instead of your scroll view, it will add a little space and i think it will not cut your text.
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="10dp">

Try adding
android:clipToPadding="false"
android:clipChildren="false"
To the parent layouts of your TextViews.

How can I Embed text inside image?

I want to display a custom text (mainly person info) inside an image like it's shown above. How can I do it in android? For example, I have a known size of this image (it differs from device to device) and want to display it with the different text size inside it in the special place.

You can use, for example, RelativeLayout.
Make your ImageView be match_parent and use some container for your text lines in bottom of parent RelativeLayout.
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:scaleType="fitXY"
app:srcCompat="#drawable/ic_launcher_background"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<LinearLayout
android:padding="20dp"
android:background="#92fffaaa"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp">
<TextView
android:textSize="20sp"
android:text="Some test text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Result:

Try this (adjust dimensions as your requirement)
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="150dp">
<ImageView
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="#drawable/your_image"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<LinearLayout
android:background="#64000000"
android:padding="8dp"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:text="Title"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<TextView
android:text="Sub Title"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>

I've done something similar previously.
Use Framelayout.
Add ImageView in frame layout with match_parent constraints.
Add LinearLayout having background="#80000000" and layout_gravity="center" in FrameLayout which contains your two TextViews.
Let me know in case this does not work.

Linear Layout behind ImageView in Relative Layout

Let me explain i have a xml like this
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imgCircle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/img_circle" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/llFirstScreen"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/imgCircle"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/imgCircle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/imgCircle"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/imgCircle"
android:background="#drawable/layout_view_round_corner"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/mapCurrentLocation"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="TextView1"
android:textColor="#color/lblTextColor"
android:textSize="#dimen/lblTextLarge"
android:textStyle="normal" >
</TextView>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="TextView2"
android:textColor="#color/lblHintColor2"
android:textSize="#dimen/lblTextMedium"
android:textStyle="normal" >
</TextView>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
And this gives me Image and TextViews next to it
But i want to accomplish something like this
that TextView Background is extended (padding maybe) at the half of the Rounded Image (behind it) so that it looks like its "part" of the image. Or I was thinking of Making a view with background white that goes behind TextView so that it looks that way. But wanted to ask here maybe if there is a better way to do this.
I hope i was clear in explaining this (That is why I added pictures).

I have tried to use demo with your xml file and you can check below code. I had to give static height and width of the ImageView to achieve result.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/llFirstScreen"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/imgCarCircle"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/imgCarCircle"
android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingLeft="40dp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/mapCurrentLocation"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="text1"
android:textStyle="normal"></TextView>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="text2"
android:textStyle="normal"></TextView>
</LinearLayout>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imgCarCircle"
android:layout_width="60dp"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:src="#mipmap/ic_launcher_round" />
</RelativeLayout>

try these:
first solution: change this
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/llFirstScreen"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/imgCircle"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/imgCircle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/imgCircle"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/imgCircle"
android:background="#drawable/layout_view_round_corner"
android:orientation="vertical">
to this:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/llFirstScreen"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/imgCircle"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/imgCircle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp" // or just figure your image width and set this programatically
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/layout_view_round_corner"
android:orientation="vertical">
second solution: it to use AbsoluteLayout which is a bit hard to handle.

How to add an transparent background image in android studio irrespective of transparency of data in the page?

enter image description hereIn linear layout I'm using image view, text view and also the edit text irrespective of the linear layout I'm thinking to add an image in the background which should be transparent when ever I try to use transparency then the whole activity is changing.However, need only the background image is transparent not the whole page.

According to what, I understood........
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/download"
android:weightSum="2"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:src="#drawable/download"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="0dp" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp">
<TextView
android:text="#string/dummy_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

In my opinion, your design is not really appealing.
In your example, the text is not readable, it makes no sense to have an image twice in the same screen, the background picture is stretched and the front image is so small.
I would suggest you use something like this:
If you like it this way, here yo have the XML definition:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="10dp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Taj Mahal"
android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
android:textSize="24sp"/>
<View
android:layout_height="2dp"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="#aaaaaa"/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:padding="10dp"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
app:srcCompat="#drawable/taj_mahal"/>
<View
android:layout_height="2dp"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="#aaaaaa"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:text="The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–1658), to house the tomb of his favourite wife."
android:textSize="18sp"/>
</LinearLayout>

Android - ImageView overlay another ImageView

I would like to make an ImageView overlay another ImageView like this; only half of the circle green is overlaying the image:
I have tried using RelativeLayout and put both ImageView inside. Then I overlay the circle over the image by using android:layout_alignBottom. It did overlay the but I have no idea how to set the offset so that only half of the circle is overlaying the base image.
EDIT:
Sorry, here is my layout xml code
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginBottom="32sp" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_person_black"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:id="#+id/image_view_product" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/image_view_product"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#drawable/image_view_circle"
android:src="#drawable/ic_circle" />
</RelativeLayout>

I get lots of upvote for this answer.So i try to improve that answer. May be this is the better way to do that compare to other two, because this solution doesn't required to fix the layout or divide screen in equal part so may be this is better to do that.
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/viewA"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/subject"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="20dp"
android:text="Thi"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="17sp"
/>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/viewB"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/white"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/description"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="20dp"
android:text="Thi"
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:textSize="17sp"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
android:id="#+id/fab"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
android:clickable="true"
android:src="#drawable/plus"
app:layout_anchor="#+id/viewA"
app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"/>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
Alternate way Try this
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
// this is your first layout to put the big image
// use src or backgroud image as per requirement
<LinearLayout
android:background="#color/red_error"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
</LinearLayout>
// this is your bottom layout
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
// This is the imageview which overlay the first LinearLayout
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/success"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:layout_gravity="center"/>
</FrameLayout>
its look like this
found one more solution for that (Edit)
if your big image size is fixed height you can try this
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/layoutTop"
android:background="#color/red_error"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp" >
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/layoutBottom"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_below="#id/layoutTop" >
</RelativeLayout>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/overlapImage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_above="#id/layoutBottom"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="-20dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="#drawable/testimage" />
</RelativeLayout>
Refernce :- Android: Placing ImageView on overlap between layouts
Hope this will help.Good Luck

Try out this way:
Just change layout_width and layout_height according to your need.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<View
android:id="#+id/viewOne"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:background="#126989" />
<View
android:id="#+id/viewTwo"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/viewOne"
android:background="#547866" />
<View
android:layout_width="70dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/viewTwo"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#ff7800"
android:layout_marginBottom="35dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
It will look like this:

I would recommend Constraintlayout as it gives excellent control over the positioning of individual view items. Sample based on your example below
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:id="#+id/parentLayout">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_person_black"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:id="#+id/image_view_product"/>
<View
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/image_view_product"/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/image_view_product"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#drawable/circle"
android:src="#drawable/ic_add_circle_green_24dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"/>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Use layout_marginTop = -20dp ( Half of your image size ). It will go up.
android:layout_marginTop="-20dp"

put both the image in Relative layout
first define the image you want to put behind the green circle
than define the green circle as
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/Image1"
Than adjust the position by giving margin to the green circle image.

I recommend you to use a framelayout with these two images.
with the refresh imageview at the bottom and the table fan at the top.
Note : As the framelayout behaves like a stack, the item at the bottom will appear at the top.
And do the set the gravity of the refresh icon to be bottom|center to make it look this way.
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ImageView
android:src="#drawable/ic_fan"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"/>
<ImageView
android:src="#drawable/ic_refresh"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center|bottom"/>
</FrameLayout>

<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginBottom="32sp" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ivBackground"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_person_black"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:id="#+id/image_view_product" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_marginTop="-20dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/ivBackground"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#drawable/image_view_circle"
android:src="#drawable/ic_circle" />
I think this should help you i have edited your code and made changes as below
- I change circle imageview height to 40dp and then i give margin top -20 dp so that image will overlay half as you need on background image.
I did not run this code so if you face any issues just let me know i hope this works well for you..

Screenshot:
activity_main.xml:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rl_image"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/thumbnail"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="160dp"
android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackgroundBorderless"
android:clickable="true"
android:contentDescription="null"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/album9" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView_round"
android:layout_width="70dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:src="#drawable/user_profile" />
</RelativeLayout>