title: Is there any way to insert an ImageSpan in a TextView without disrupting the text?
body: <p>It seems that in order to add an ImageSpan to a Spannable in Android, I have to actually replace some text with the Image. For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Spannable span = new SpannableString("Foo imageplace Bar!");
  Drawable android = context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.android);
  android.setBounds(0, 0, 32,32);
  ImageSpan image = new ImageSpan(android, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BASELINE);
  span.setSpan(image, 4, 14, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This will replace "imageplace" with the image. Because I'm dealing with complex multi-span text and reiteration, it's a bit of a headache to insert meaningless text at each place I want the android icon. But it looks like if start and end of span are the same, the image won't be included. Is there any way around this?</p>