Android Paint: .measureText() vs .getTextBounds()

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I’m measuring text using Paint.getTextBounds(), since I’m interested in getting both the height and width of the text to be rendered. However, the actual text rendered is always a bit wider than the .width() of the Rect information filled by getTextBounds().

To my surprise, I tested .measureText(), and found that it returns a different (higher) value. I gave it a try, and found it correct.

Why do they report different widths? How can I correctly obtain the height and width? I mean, I can use .measureText(), but then I wouldn’t know if I should trust the .height() returned by getTextBounds().

As requested, here is minimal code to reproduce the problem:

final String someText = "Hello. I believe I'm some text!";

Paint p = new Paint();
Rect bounds = new Rect();

for (float f = 10; f < 40; f += 1f) {
    p.setTextSize(f);

    p.getTextBounds(someText, 0, someText.length(), bounds);

    Log.d("Test", String.format(
        "Size %f, measureText %f, getTextBounds %d",
        f,
        p.measureText(someText),
        bounds.width())
    );
}

The output shows that the difference not only gets greater than 1 (and is no last-minute rounding error), but also seems to increase with size (I was about to draw more conclusions, but it may be entirely font-dependent):

D/Test    (  607): Size 10.000000, measureText 135.000000, getTextBounds 134
D/Test    (  607): Size 11.000000, measureText 149.000000, getTextBounds 148
D/Test    (  607): Size 12.000000, measureText 156.000000, getTextBounds 155
D/Test    (  607): Size 13.000000, measureText 171.000000, getTextBounds 169
D/Test    (  607): Size 14.000000, measureText 195.000000, getTextBounds 193
D/Test    (  607): Size 15.000000, measureText 201.000000, getTextBounds 199
D/Test    (  607): Size 16.000000, measureText 211.000000, getTextBounds 210
D/Test    (  607): Size 17.000000, measureText 225.000000, getTextBounds 223
D/Test    (  607): Size 18.000000, measureText 245.000000, getTextBounds 243
D/Test    (  607): Size 19.000000, measureText 251.000000, getTextBounds 249
D/Test    (  607): Size 20.000000, measureText 269.000000, getTextBounds 267
D/Test    (  607): Size 21.000000, measureText 275.000000, getTextBounds 272
D/Test    (  607): Size 22.000000, measureText 297.000000, getTextBounds 294
D/Test    (  607): Size 23.000000, measureText 305.000000, getTextBounds 302
D/Test    (  607): Size 24.000000, measureText 319.000000, getTextBounds 316
D/Test    (  607): Size 25.000000, measureText 330.000000, getTextBounds 326
D/Test    (  607): Size 26.000000, measureText 349.000000, getTextBounds 346
D/Test    (  607): Size 27.000000, measureText 357.000000, getTextBounds 354
D/Test    (  607): Size 28.000000, measureText 369.000000, getTextBounds 365
D/Test    (  607): Size 29.000000, measureText 396.000000, getTextBounds 392
D/Test    (  607): Size 30.000000, measureText 401.000000, getTextBounds 397
D/Test    (  607): Size 31.000000, measureText 418.000000, getTextBounds 414
D/Test    (  607): Size 32.000000, measureText 423.000000, getTextBounds 418
D/Test    (  607): Size 33.000000, measureText 446.000000, getTextBounds 441
D/Test    (  607): Size 34.000000, measureText 455.000000, getTextBounds 450
D/Test    (  607): Size 35.000000, measureText 468.000000, getTextBounds 463
D/Test    (  607): Size 36.000000, measureText 474.000000, getTextBounds 469
D/Test    (  607): Size 37.000000, measureText 500.000000, getTextBounds 495
D/Test    (  607): Size 38.000000, measureText 506.000000, getTextBounds 501
D/Test    (  607): Size 39.000000, measureText 521.000000, getTextBounds 515

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