title: Change text kerning or spacing in TextView?
body: <p>I have a requirement where the letters in a TextView need to be spaced a little farther apart. Unfortunately, most of the resources I find seem to say this cannot be done--at least not easily.</p>
  
  <p>So far, the apparent solutions are:<br></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Add spaces in between the characters in the String-- "A B C" instead
  of "ABC". Of course, that doesn't work if only a LITTLE more space
  is    needed.<br></li>
  <li>Change textScale, but that affects the size of the letters, not just the spacing between letters<br></li>
  <li>Use the Font class, but that isn't available until Honeycomb (I need something Gingerbread compatible) and it has been deprecated
  in    JellyBean, so that's not a good option.<br></li>
  <li>Find a font with different kerning, but that's not practiif clients want to use the same font.<br></li>
  <li>Override onDraw for a View, drawing characters to the Canvas one character at a time, manually specifying exactly where each
  character    should be drawn.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Is there something I'm missing? It seems like there should be a better way. I see TextAttribute.KERNING and TextAttribute.TRACKING... it seems like those should be able to be used easily, but I can't figure out how.</p>
  
  <p>What's the best way to change the spacing between letters in a TextView?</p>