Android TextView not wrapping it's text correctly

Question

As you can see from the image below, Android does not wrap my text as I would expect:

There is no space between the "-" and the "$", yet they are on different lines. The string is just defined like this:

<string name="hello_world">Hello stackoverflow. This text does not wrap well -$999,999,999.</string>

Is there any way to change this behaviour? I want "-$999,999,999" to wrap as if it were one word.

Answer 1

OK, I have the answer. There is a non-breaking hyphen ‑ (mentioned here ). All I needed to do was define the String like so:

<string name="hello_world">Hello stackoverflow. This text does not wrap well &#8209;$999,999,999.</string>

Answer 2

If I understood it correctly it is more a matter of text-formatting. If you want "-" and "$" to be on the same row, set the text as textView.setText("Hello stackoverflow. This text does not wrap well \\n -$999,999,999."). The "\\n" is interpreted as a new line