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Android TextView unwanted padding issue

I am having issue with android TextView. having unwanted spacein TextView,
the space is coming only sometimes. For your reference attached image above, you can see some extra space on the right end of TextView. Please help me guys.
here is the xml code
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="all"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:padding="0dp"
android:gravity="start"
android:text="#{message.message}"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textColorLink="#android:color/white"
android:textIsSelectable="true"
android:textSize="14sp"
tools:text="this is the problem i am having please helpme to find a solution" />

you can use this library to justify textview
https://github.com/navabi/JustifiedTextView
<ir.noghteh.JustifiedTextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:padding="25dp"
xmlns:noghteh="http://noghteh.ir"
noghteh:text="text here"
noghteh:textColor="#color/text"
noghteh:textSize="18sp"/>

Justified Text with central alignment in android

Hello everyone, i am working on android application in which i am showing some text using TextView with central alignment on the screen. But the problem is that the text is not properly justified on the screen. This is the xml code which i am using for showing text with central alignment on the screen. Please help me for doing this.
<TextView
android:id="#+id/lastMessage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="Mana addd asdwd ekff fec greq crrq grooe cieurnf covhrpw cjcneie ejducbc ueiche deidhe idhcecm ekwp ww"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:textSize="12sp" />

This library will provide you a way to justify text.
Compatible for Android 2.2 to 5.X
https://github.com/bluejamesbond/TextJustify-Android

If you want to center align text, use android:gravity="center" as follows:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/lastMessage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Mana addd asdwd ekff fec greq crrq grooe cieurnf covhrpw cjcneie ejducbc ueiche deidhe idhcecm ekwp ww"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:textSize="12sp" />

Android: Need Ellipsis for Multiple TextViews in Relative Layout

I am new to Android, i have below task.
I want to align three TextViews adjacent to each other with ellipsis if the text is too long . Currently i am using below code which aligns my TextView adjacent to each other, but my problem is if the text is too long, the below code not putting the ellipsis. i got some trick to use both toleftof and torightof from here, but in my case it going to circular dependency as mentioned here.
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/reminderText">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/noteTagOne"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/noteTagTwo"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/noteTagOne"
android:layout_marginLeft="5sp"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/noteTagThree"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/noteTagTwo"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="5sp"/>
</RelativeLayout>
I want output as,
Tag1... Tag2... Tag3...
Basically, i want some ideas, whether in xml i can achieve this or need to do it programmatically, since TextView text's are dynamic i cannot fix maxLength, sometimes only single tag may exist, at that time it should take full text.
Note: I am developing Android project using C# in Xamarin.
Added code is for the above highlighted part. I fixed overlapping of tagsicon & text. Now only two issues.
1) Last tag is overlapping with right aligned image.
2) If TextView texts are short, gap is shown in-between the tags
How to fix it?

try this solution
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/noteTagOne"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxWidth="100dp"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Tag111111111111111111"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/noteTagTwo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="5sp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/noteTagOne"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxWidth="100dp"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Tag2222222222222222"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/noteTagThree"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="5sp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/noteTagTwo"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxWidth="100dp"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Tag3333333333333333"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

Use this android:ellipsize="marquee" it will work

android:ellipsize="marquee"
or
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:singleLine="true"

Android TextView ellipsize

I'm using Android TextView to display the name of the CATALOG.
I added the specific width for TextView outer layout (150dp).
I wants to display "..." when text has more length.
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/textview_layout"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/catalog_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:textColor="#color/blue"
android:textSize="20dp"
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="end"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
Catalog Name: Furniture and Books
My result showing:
Furniture an...
But my expectation result is
Furniture and... (or) Furniture...
I wants to show the "..." when there is no space for word in catalog name.

Please check whether this works
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/textview_layout"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/catalog_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Furniture and Books"
android:textColor="#android:color/holo_blue_dark"
android:textScaleX="1.1"
android:textSize="20dp" />
</RelativeLayout>

You can try this in java code, if it's really necessary.
String str = "Furniture and Books";
str = str.substring(0,8)+"...";
text_view.setText(str);

try to set the EMS for your text view, like :
<TextView
android:id="#+id/catalog_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:textColor="#color/blue"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxEms="4"
/>
by the way, using "sp" in fonts is a good practice ... any ways
where EMS is the size of characters your textview should hold, in practice, 4 EMS makes the text view holds 8 charachters (you can test it with your devices), and if you want to give it a fixed width based on the numer of charachters, you can use
android:ems="4"
instead

Android Textview Italic and wrap_contents

I am using 3 italic textviews with different colors
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="#+id/submittedBy" android:paddingTop="10dip">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/subByImg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="left" android:layout_gravity="bottom" android:src="#drawable/submitted_by_arrow"/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/submitLabel"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="left" android:text="Submitted by" android:textStyle="italic"
android:textSize="12sp" android:textColor="#color/gray" android:paddingLeft="5dip"/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/submitName" android:textStyle="italic"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="12sp" android:textColor="#color/maroon_dark" android:paddingLeft="10dip"/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/submitByDate" android:textStyle="italic"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="left"
android:textSize="12sp" android:textColor="#color/gray" android:paddingLeft="10dip"/>
</LinearLayout>
I wonder every last character is not displaying properly specially name displayed in the middle is "Dan Buckland" and it it is missing last character looks like "Dan Bucklano"
Also tell me pls how can have textview italic and bold both..
alt text http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/953d573113.jpg

I had the exact same problem. I got around it by simply adding a space to the end of any string that needs to be in italics.
It may not be the most long-term-correct solution but it worked for me.

Seems like the bounding box is not correctly calculated when using italic.
Have you tried to use paddingLeft=6 and paddingRight=6 for the elements?
(less chance of overlap).
For multiple styles in a TextView see Is it possible to have multiple styles inside a TextView?

You can use   with the text in string.xml file.