Some icons are incorrectly rendered with `IconicsTextView` + XML

[smelfungus]

About this issue

Some icons are incorrectly rendered with IconicsTextView + XML.

• Pixel C emulator:
  

• Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra:
  

Sample code:

<com.mikepenz.iconics.view.IconicsTextView
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:text="@string/title_statistics_chart_success"
  android:textAppearance="?attr/textAppearanceBody2" />

<string name="title_statistics_chart_success">{gmd-trending-up} Success</string>

Details

• Used support library version:
  androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.4.0-alpha03
• Used gradle build tools version 4.2.2 / 7.1.1
• Used tooling / Android Studio version: 4.2.2
• Used library version: 5.2.8, 5.3.0-b01

Fonts:

• com.mikepenz:google-material-typeface:4.0.0.1-kotlin@aar
• com.mikepenz:community-material-typeface:5.8.55.0-kotlin@aar

[mikepenz]

Are they correctly rendered if using as IconicsDrawable?

[smelfungus]

@mikepenz I just checked this, yes:

[mikepenz]

Could it be that the font was not initialised, or maybe android API level related?

[smelfungus]

@mikepenz, let me create a reproducible sample and share it asap.

[smelfungus]

@mikepenz It seems like the appcompat dependency is causing this issue, it is working with:
androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.3.1
But starts breaking with:
androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.4.0-alpha01+
Sample:
https://github.com/dummyco/android-iconics-gh-592

[mikepenz]

That's super interesting :/ will have to take a closer look, not sure why that would be.

[mikepenz]

Maybe it's time to deprecate all text based forms, and only retain the IconicsDrawable

[mikepenz]

I have the feeling something in here overwrites our spannable

[mikepenz]

You will have to add app:emojiCompatEnabled="false" to the xml (using their setter to disable it programmatically from the view seems to not work.

[mikepenz]

Tried to find a way around, but have not found any solution beside disabling support for it via xml

[smelfungus]

That's wonderful! Thank you for taking a look 👍🏻