Lettrine is a library that let you display TextView with an initial first letter.

• Select how many lines your initial should use
• Choose the text font
• Change the text size
• Change the text color
• Display Spanned text

The following screenshots illustrate the library capabilities listed above :

Lettrine with a three lines height	Lettrine with a two lines height	Font customization	Html balisis inclusion	Custom text color

Here is an example of how you can a LettrineTextView in your project :

  <com.github.rpradal.lettrine.LettrineTextView
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              app:lettrine_textColor="@android:color/holo_red_dark"
              app:lettrine_text="Lorem ipsum"
              app:lettrine_lettrineSize="3"
              app:lettrine_textSize="14sp" />

The exhaustive attribute list of a LettrineTextView is the following :

• lettrine_textSize Body text size
• lettrine_lettrineSize Number of body lines the lettrine will take
• lettrine_font The font to use (applied to both lettrine letter and body text)
• lettrine_textColor Text color (applied to both lettrine letter and body text)
• lettrine_text Text to display in the LettrineTextView

Of course all these attributes are settable programatically thanks to public methods.

Add the following line in your gradle dependencies block.

  compile 'com.github.rpradal.lettrine:lettrine:release_number'

release_number has to be replaced with the current lettrine version: <img src="https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/com.github.rpradal.lettrine/lettrine/badge.svg"

Project developed with LeMonde.fr and Octo Technology support.

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