Something is wrong with text sizing/reflow in Lollipop

[Yury]

Костя,

My Nexus 5 got upgraded to Lollipop recently and ever since the way the message text is displayed is weird. Font is too small, sometimes the right margin is in the middle of the screen.

Also, sometimes, the message is not displayed completely, just cuts off in the middle. Reopening the message usually fixes it. Never seen is prior to the update.

Thanks,
Yury

[Yury]

Here you go. Interestingly, zooming with power buttons only moves the right margin with no font increase. Happens in portrait mode only, landscape seems OK.

Its for a Fastmail account and a gmail account, both via IMAP.

[Yury]

If you wish I could forward that email to you, just let me know the address.

[Yury]

No. Its a standard vBulletin notification, looks like text-only.

[Yury]

Also, how come it does not do that in landscape?

[Yury]

No. Its a standard vBulletin notification, looks like text-only.

Are you facing this issue with "normal" text messages?

Just tried a simple message, works OK. Hiwevert, I do get this issue in my gmail account with emails that appear to contain text only. I can't tell though if those are in fact HTML messages.

[Yury]

Install last build version, and use "Material design" theme please, to check

Same behavior with 1.5.1-25.4-dev9.2

[Yury]

Fastmail and gmail. Both accounts have this issue.

[Yury]

Actually, not quite. In those messages I sent you the volume zoom still does not change font size while in portrait mode. In other messages it does. Initial sizing seems OK in the latest build.

[Yury]

Strictly speaking yes.

However, I do find that the flowing algorithm could be a bit better. A long line with no white spaces is split so that there is a bit of space on the right in lines that are regular english delimited text. But this is not a major issue and quite likely was like this before.

[Yury]

Actually, also, volume zoom is still working oddly in portrait. See attached, I opened a message and zoomed once.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Reflow, text sizing, actual layout -- are all handled by code inside Android.

Called WebView, it got a major update in 4.4 (and was very unstable and weird in general) and in 5.0, it got a major update again.

Out of my control. Just like status bar icons now (5.0) being forced to white.

[Yury]

But the status icon colors are fine with the Google Play version?

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Nope. Paris Geek posted screenshots here under -dev9.2 -- they're forced to white in the status bar area (when not expanded).

[Yury]

A version installed from Google Play (not the Dev build) does colors well. That's what I meant.