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TextView is cut off when applying BlurMaskFilter

I want to blur the text of a TextView, but the text is cut off left and right.
Image of the cut off text
I tried to increase padding, margin. Changed gravity, Enabled/disabled font padding. Set a fixed height, lowered font size etc. All to the same result: The sides were cut off.
The setting of the mask filter is just two lines:
textView.paint.maskFilter = BlurMaskFilter(radius, BlurMaskFilter.Blur.NORMAL)
textView.postInvalidate()
This is how my XML layout looks like:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="-1dp"
android:includeFontPadding="false"
android:layerType="software"
android:textSize="48sp"
tools:textColor="#color/solid_white"
tools:text="132" />
I'm looking for a solution to see the text fully without cutoffs on the edges.

Remove this attribute from your <TextView> tag:
android:layerType="software"
Hardware acceleration is required for views to draw outside of their bounds. Note that padding doesn't help here because view contents are clipped by padding as well.

After attempting a ton of alternatives, using a LeadingMarginSpan.Standard(margin) to offset the text did the trick. I overrode the class and added the blur mask there rather than using a MaskFilterSpan.

Android, ImageView, unwanted padding

I'm using something like that to present my logo or user profile picture:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/logo"
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:background="#drawable/circle_bg"
android:src="#drawable/account_circle_grey"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
#drawable/circle_bg:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="oval">
<solid
android:color="#color/colorWhiteOpacity"/>
<size
android:width="100dp"
android:height="100dp"/>
</shape>
and #drawable/account_circle_grey is just an image I took from MaterialUI(the black 192x192) and used Final-Android-Resizer.
The problem is that I get something like that:
Basically the problem is that when the user clicks and pick a picture, I use glide to load the picture to replace the default #drawable/account_circle_gray but as you can see the padding is gone:
The picture takes the full space, as it should!, what I wanted to add is padding="5dp" and that will give a bit of padding between the background and the Glide loaded user picture, the problem is that there is already a weird padding to #drawable/account_circle_grey, I noticed however that not all drawables get the padding, when I chosen an old picture I used as a full page background I didn't get the padding, maybe I can force android to pick bigger picture, why do I get this padding?
Edit:
To clerify I used this tutorial to try all possible(scaleType+adjustViewBounds) values but nothing worked.

This is likely happening when you're using images that are physically smaller than the size of your ImageView. You can scale the image to fill the space or use a larger image. A mix of both is likely the best solution.
To achieve the former of the two, try this:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/logo"
android:layout_width="90dp"
android:layout_height="90dp"
android:background="#drawable/circle_bg"
android:src="#drawable/account_circle_grey"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:padding="5dp" />
Notice that I reduced the width and height by 2x the padding. That is because adding padding to a view increases the entire view's size by the size of the padding. In this particular case we're adding 5dp to the left, to the right, to the top, and to the left. This means we must subtract left and right from the width, and top and bottom from the height.

set the scaleType of your ImageView to centerFit or you can add only high dpi drawable to your drawables

thanks for the answers, the problem was so obvious but I made it complicated, although I used many "account_circle" images, what I didn't think was that they all comes with a transparent padding, so if the image is 192x192 for instance it's actual size is about 182x182 with 5px transparent padding on each side, anyway the simple solution is to open it on photoshop, go to Image>Trim and that's it.

Change the size of an Imageview in android

I set the default size of an imageview as width=511 and height=385 .
Source of the imageview is from drawable.
Based on a dynamic value I need to change the size of the image view or the image fit in to it.
For example I want to change the size of the imageview or image inside it to width=140 and height=100
ImageView scale=(ImageView) findViewById(R.id.scaleimage);

If you set the width and height attributes of your ImageView to specific values, the system will automatically scale you images to fit.
Unless I don't understand your question, I think it is as simple as:
<ImageView
android:layout_width="140dp"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:scale_type="fitXY"
/>
To set this in code, try:
LinearLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(140,100);
yourView.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);

How to keep the aspect ratio of a foreground image?

I currently have a FrameLayout with a background and a foreground image. The foreground image has transparency using alpha in order to see through and watch the background below.
The foreground image needs to mantain the same aspect ratio of the original bitmap because consists of a trasparent circle in a black screen, much like a spyglass effect. I'm looking for any resolution compatibility.
Unfortunately, I am incapable of achieve this and the foreground shows always its circle stretched.
This is part of the XML code:
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/layout_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/background"
android:foreground="#drawable/foreground"
android:foregroundGravity="center|fill_horizontal"
>
I am also trying to solve my issue providing two diferent images, one with 4:3 ratio and the other with 16:9 ratio, each one in a different drawable folder with the long and notlong qualifiers.
/drawable-long/foreground.png (16:9 aspect)
/drawable-notlong/foreground.png (4:3 aspect)
Still with no success.
Do you have any idea of how to get this effect?
Thanks for your time.

Change this attribute in your FrameLayout:
android:foregroundGravity="center"
This will place the foreground drawable in the center of the FrameLayout, not changing its size.
"center|fill_horizontal" will place it in the center and stretch its width to fill the FrameLayout width, which is clearly not what you want.

I don't believe you can change the scale type of either the foreground or the background. What I would recommend is to either:
Place an extra ImageView in your FrameLayout to serve as your background, and use the src and scaleType attributes to handle the image and how it scales.
Since it's a simple black background with just a transparent circle, you could convert that into a 9-patch, making sure to stretch it evenly around the circle. The circle will not scale, but the black area will extend to fill the view.
Number 1 is my personal recommendation if the circle needs to scale as well.

Android: How to prevent image from being scaled in ImageView or ImageButton?

How can I prevent my bitmap from being scaled automatically in an ImageView or ImageButton if the view or button is stretched using "fill_parent" or using "weight"?
This will be useful, for example, to create a 4-button toolbar at the top of the screen where the buttons are equally spaced, but the images inside the buttons keep getting streched even if I use scaleType="center", which should prevent scaling according to the doc, but it doesn't.
Any insight is appreciated!
Thanks,

I have found that when using android:background automatically scales the image you are using there to the size of the View.
I tried using the android:src to put the image in the view. The image did not scale, but I could not get the image to center relative to the size of the View.
So I tried making the whole Button it's own relative layout and this is what I used:
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout01"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent">
<ImageButton android:id="#+id/ImageButton01"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"></ImageButton>
<ImageView android:id="#+id/ImageView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/cardback1"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"></ImageView>
</RelativeLayout>
The ImageButton is in the background and will always be the same size as the layout.
The ImageView however will always stay centered in the RelativeLayout and will not scale.
This way the RelativeLayout itself can grow and move and the Image on top of the button will always stay the same size, but the button will grow. The image will however shrink if the Layout becomes smaller than the image itself.
I think that's what you were looking for. There may be a better way to do this, but this is all I can come up with right now.

Simply modify your drawable, apply a larger transparent background. Say my drawable in hdpi is 41*48 px icon.png . I created a new image 60*60 px with a transparent background , copy-paste the previous icon.png and save under the same name. This way you don't need to touch your layouts .
Then you can check the button zone larger if you apply a non transparent android:background:
<ImageButton android:id="#+id/widget_open"
android:src="#drawable/icon_widget_arrow_up"
android:background="#ff777777"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"></ImageButton>
Apply the previous and new drawable to android:src , you should clearly see ImageButton area.
By the way, I am running the app in compatibility mode.

If the image is scaled, make sure you are not running your app in compatibility mode (for instance if you target Android 1.5/1.6 without supporting multiple densities and you run the app on Android 2.0.)