From 99c620016bae34be35f1fc5143b07d9efba8259c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Ong <ong.joshuajames@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 17:23:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Closes #1 Don't allow `originalText` field to be null

---
 .../main/java/com/andrognito/kerningview/KerningTextView.java  | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kerningview/src/main/java/com/andrognito/kerningview/KerningTextView.java b/kerningview/src/main/java/com/andrognito/kerningview/KerningTextView.java
index 5f666f8..77e5932 100644
--- a/kerningview/src/main/java/com/andrognito/kerningview/KerningTextView.java
+++ b/kerningview/src/main/java/com/andrognito/kerningview/KerningTextView.java
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ private void init(AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
         try {
             kerningFactor = currentTypedArray.getFloat(R.styleable.KerningViews_kv_spacing,
                     NO_KERNING);
-            originalText = originalTypedArray.getText(0);
+            CharSequence attributeText = originalTypedArray.getText(0);
+            originalText = attributeText != null ? attributeText : "";
         } finally {
             originalTypedArray.recycle();
             currentTypedArray.recycle();