I have two TextViews in a vertical LinearLayout, one serves as a display for a book's title and the latter as a display for the book's author(s).
I need the first to have wrap_content as its height, so it takes a good part of the linear layout. However, I want it to cap out at three lines max, so that there is still some space left for the second text view;
and I need the latter to fill the remaining space (0dp and layout_weight=0dp).
I want to use specific configuration so that the author view will be always right after the title view (on its bottom).
Something like this, however the max_lines do not kick in.
I tried to set max_lines to 3 and wrap_content for the first view height, but it seem that max_lines is ignored if height is set to wrap_content.
I also tried to circumvent the problem by sort of cheating and adding a max_height, but then the two views may be spaced apart from one another.
At last I tried to convert the linear layout to a constraint layout, to see if I could access some other layout settings to no avail.
Any help?
It seems to be working fine on my side with android:max_lines="3" even with wrap_content
This is just a test layout I created
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview1"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="3"
android:textSize="#dimen/_13sdp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:text="Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Long Text"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:text="Very Very Short Text "
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="#+id/textview1"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/textview1" />
Screenshot ->
Hope this helps! :)
Replacing app:max_lines with android:max_lines seems to have fixed the issue.
I'm using an Android auto-sizing TextView via the appcompat library, as below:
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView
android:id="#+id/info"
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
app:autoSizeTextType="uniform"
app:autoSizeMinTextSize="8sp"
app:autoSizeMaxTextSize="14sp"
app:autoSizeStepGranularity="0.5sp"
android:text="#string/something" />
This works nicely the first time the text is set - eg the text size shrinks if it needs to.
But the second time it's set, the text size doesn't grow again if the content is small enough to allow it. It remains at the smaller size appropriate for the previous content.
So, what is the proper procedure for calling setText on an auto-sizing TextView, so that the auto-sizing parameters are respected? Or is there a way to force the TextView to re-evaluate its content and resize the text?
I have tried setting the text size back to the default before calling setText but that seems to have no effect.
By reproducing your code I faced the same problem and the only solution that worked is giving a specific height to the TextView like: android:layout_height="30dp" From: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/autosizing-textview#setting-textview-autosize
If you set autosizing in an XML file, it is not recommended to use the
value "wrap_content" for the layout_width or layout_height attributes
of a TextView. It may produce unexpected results.
I have a large layout inside a ScrollView. There are a few EditTexts Which have maxHeight set to 100dp.
The problem is when I copy and past a long text into my EditText the height of it does not increase from maxHeight (which is normal), but the parent ScrollView scrolls to the end. It seems that ScrollView does not understand the maxHeight attribute of the EditText and behaves like there is no maxHeight and EditText has increased its height to wrap the content of the pasted long text.
It seems this issue is fixed on Android 7+, but on older versions this problem exists.
There is nothing interesting in my layout so I will not put it here. It is just a ScrollView which has a vertical LinearLayout inside, and LinearLayout has a bunch of views and a few EditTexts like the following:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/layout_free_text_et"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="48dp"
android:maxHeight="100dp"
android:paddingStart="15dp"
android:paddingEnd="15dp"
android:paddingTop="10dp"
android:paddingBottom="10dp"
android:background="#drawable/section_background"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textColorHint="#color/gray"
android:textSize="#dimen/section_text_size"
android:hint="#string/hint_free_text"/>
I have tried to add different attributes to EditText, like maxLine etc. seems nothing solves the issue. I googled a lot, but there is nothing even similar to this issue anywhere. Can anybody suggest me a solution to this problem?
you can use this android:lines="2" it also makes you can scroll the EditText
I have I guess simple problem however I cant find any solution to it.
I have a textView in with width - wrap_content.
I have it aligned to the right and inside linear layout.
That linear layout might be max lets say 200dp so textView max width is 200dp too.
Now whenever I type some text lets say:
"Dhasdhjads. ahsdjhasd. hjashjdashjdhs."
The two first words appear in first line and obviously the third word is moved to next because there is not enough space.
However Eventho third word is not that wide that the first two, the textview takes max space instead of using only as much space as its needed.
It looks like that
First Second--------------
Third word
---- is the free space that is beign taken instead of looking like that:
First Second
Third word
Any solution to this?
Well xml of my code Textview is:
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/black"
android:singleLine="false"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"/>
There is no solution for this, If you keep
singleLine = "false"
then android will set the text autometically as per space it found
Make android:singleLine="false" to android:singleLine="true"
Does any one know how to wrap text in TextView in Android platform. i.e if the text in textview exceed the screen length it should be displayed in the second line.
I have searched and tried the following:
android:scrollHorizontally="false",
android:inputType="textMultiLine",
android:singleLine="false"
But none work..
Can anyone suggest how can I do it.
Constraint Layout
<TextView
android:id="#+id/some_textview"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="#id/textview_above"
app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="#id/button_to_right"/>
Ensure your layout width is zero
left / right constraints are defined
layout height of wrap_content allows expansion up/down.
Set android:maxLines="2" to prevent vertical expansion (2 is just an e.g.)
Ellipses are prob. a good idea with max lines android:ellipsize="end"
0dp width allows left/right constraints to determine how wide your widget is.
Setting left/right constraints sets the actual width of your widget, within which your text will wrap.
Constraint Layout docs
For me this issue only occurred on Android < 4.0
The combination of parameters I used were:
android:layout_weight="1"
android:ellipsize="none"
android:maxLines="100"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
The maxLines count seemed to be the random final piece that made my TextView wrap.
For the case where the TextView is inside a TableLayout, the solution is to set android:shrinkColumns="1" on the TableLayout. (Replace 1 with the column number the TextView you want to wrap is in. (0-indexed))
AFAICT, no other attributes are needed on the TextView.
For other cases, see the other answers here.
FWIW, I had initially gotten it to sort of work with
<TextView
android:id="#+id/inventory_text"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:width="0dp"
but that resulted in some extra empty space at the bottom of the Dialog it was all in.
Use app:breakStrategy="simple" in AppCompatTextView, it will control over paragraph layout.
It has three constant values
balanced
high_quality
simple
Designing in your TextView xml
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView
android:id="#+id/textquestion"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
android:text="Your Question Display Hear....Your Question Display Hear....Your Question Display Hear....Your Question Display Hear...."
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
app:breakStrategy="simple" />
If your current minimum api level is 23 or more then in Coding
yourtextview.setBreakStrategy(Layout.BREAK_STRATEGY_SIMPLE);
For more refrence refer this BreakStrategy
You must use 2 parameters :
android:ellipsize="none" : the text is not cut on textview width
android:scrollHorizontally="false" the text wraps on as many lines as necessary
This should fix your problem: android:layout_weight="1".
By setting android:maxEms to a given value together with android:layout_weight="1" will cause the TextView to wrap once it reaches the given length of the ems.
OK guys the truth is somewhere in the middle cause you have to see the issue from the parent's view and child's. The solution below works ONLY when spinner mode = dialog regardless of Android version (no problem there.. tested it in VD and DesireS with Android =>2.2) :
.Set you spinner's(the parent) mode like :
android:spinnerMode="dialog"
Set the textview's(child custom view) properties to :
android:layout_weight="1"
android:ellipsize="none"
android:maxLines="100"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
I hope this works for you also.
In Android Studio 2.2.3 under the inputType property there is a property called textMultiLine. Selecting this option sorted out a similar problem for me. I hope that helps.
Just was working on a TextView inside a layout inside a RecyclerView. I had text getting cut off, ex, for Read this message, I saw: Read this. I tried setting android:maxLines="2" on the TextView, but nothing changed. However, android:lines="2" resulted in Read this on first line and message on the 2nd.
Try #Guykun's approach
android:layout_weight="1"
android:ellipsize="none"
android:maxLines="100"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
Also, make sure that parents width is not set to wrap content. This is the thing that I was missing.
I had the same problem. Following change made it work -
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
The ellipsis, maxLines, or layout_weight - all didn't make any difference.
Note - The parent width is also set as wrap_content.
All you have to do is to set your textview width.
android:layout_width="60dp"
you can change the width to your choice. Just type long sentence to check if it working like this
android:text="i want to be among world class software engineer"
I am using Android 2.2 and my textview will automatically goto the next line if it exceeds the screen.
If you would like to have the text goto the next line before the end of the screen, just add in (just put in your own dp value). This will be useful if you have a picture on the right of the text.
android:layout_marginRight="52dp"
Strange enough - I created my TextView in Code and it wrapped - despite me not setting anything except standard stuff - but see for yourself:
LinearLayout.LayoutParams childParams = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
childParams.setMargins(5, 5, 5, 5);
Label label = new Label(this);
label.setText("This is a testing label This is a testing label This is a testing label This is a testing labelThis is a testing label This is a testing label");
label.setLayoutParams(childParams);
As you can see from the params definition I am using a LinearLayout. The class Label simply extends TextView - not doing anything there except setting the font size and the font color.
When running it in the emulator (API Level 9) it automatically wraps the text across 3 lines.
Just set layout_with to a definate size, when the text fills the maximum width it will overflow to the next line causing a wrap effect.
<TextView
android:id="#+id/segmentText"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/segmentHeader"
android:text="You have the option to record in one go or segments(if you swap options
you will loose your current recordings)"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
The trick is with the textView width, try to make it dedicated number like:
<TextView
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
I've tried many solutions without any result, I've tried:
android:ellipsize="none"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
the only one thing triggred the wrap option is the dedicated width
You need to add your TextView in a ScrollView with something like this :
<ScrollView android:id="#+id/SCROLL_VIEW"
android:layout_height="150px"
android:layout_width="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TEXT_VIEW"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header" />
</ScrollView>