android - Font size too large to fit in cache

Question

So i recently switched to android 3.0 (honeycomb) and i'm having some issues with hardware rendering, specifically at a certain custom view i've written where I use a font size of 200 to display some text.

Unfortunately it seems the openGLRenderer doesn't like that kind of rather large font sizes very much, given the error i'm getting in the log:

06-06 16:22:00.080: ERROR/OpenGLRenderer(2503): Font size to large to fit in cache. width, height = 97, 145

Are there ways around this (or ways to fix it) such that I can get the text displayed at the wanted font size?

Answer 1

It is really a bug in the Android OS inside the Hardware Acceleration modules. I think that the best way is to ask the system to avoid HW acceleration on TextViews that contain large size text. To do so, just add in the code:

TextView bigText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.bigtext);
bigText.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);