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Android RecyclerView item text too long

I have a RecyclerView list where some items (text) are too long for the width allowed by the device. I can use android:ellipsize="end" to indicate that the text is truncated but I want to be able to show user the whole text. I can use android:scrollHorizontally="true" and then the text will scroll but there is no visual indication for the user that he needs to scroll it and the text just looks truncated. What would be the good UX for this case? Thanks.

1、you can edit your textView like this
xml
<TextView
...
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="......"/>
It will auto scrollHorizontal,Or you can use a autoFitTextView in you list item,auto fit textview.

You can add android:scrollbars="horizontal" to your recyclerview to show the scrollbar.

Turned out that the solution is to wrap the item in HorizontalScrollView and set android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal". This allows for scrolling and there is a horizontal scroll bar for long items.

So, after many investigations, I've found the problem solution:
This happens due to MARGINS and PADDINGS (and maybe other offset parameters) inside your TextView and its parents. Just remove them and see the result.
I hope it helped new googlers!
PS:
If you want to save your offset parameters try to change the layout width parameter inside your TextView and its parents to wrap content (but somewhere also try 0dp or match parent), it also worked for me. So your UI will look exactly as you want!

Edittext how to move chars to the left if filled

I have an edittext which has a width depending on another view on its top which is a textview. I set both the views to wrap content so that the edittext will copy the textview's width. But, when the edittext is completely filled up, the characters make a new line. How can I make it such that when the edittext is completely filled up the characters are only moving to the left. If possible, I do not want to hardcode the width. Is there any solution for this? Thanks.

Add this to your EditText XML:
android:singleLine="true"
android:maxLines="1"

android:singleLine="true" only

How do i design scrollable text view in layout?

I'm not getting this "Scrollable Text View" part.. It messes up..

You don't need to use a ScrollView actually.
Just set the
android:maxLines = "a number"
android:scrollbars = "vertical"
properties of your TextView in your layout's xml file.
Then use:
yourTextView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod())
in your code.
it will scrolls automatically.

How to prevent TextView from resizing its container

Take a look at my layout
http://pastebin.com/6tQVm3Rk
My problem is that the textviews (named header1 to 5) are resizing its containers when a certain amount of letters are written into it, although there is still some space left.
What changes do I have to make that the layout stays in its original state independent from the amount of text located in the headers?

This might be because of this attribute.
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
If you want your textview to have only one line you can use android:singleline="true"

Add the attribute
android:maxLength="2"
to the textview. This way you can limit the number of characters.

I think its better to use Relative layout instead Linear layout in the XML so that objects in Relative layout are easy to manage dynamically, all you need to do is that put all those text views in the Relative layout and set these parameters:
layout align left:
layout align right:
And other solution which is not appropriate is that fix the size of text view then it will not expand.
And please see the Documentation for further details of Relative Layout.

Set the width and heigth of your textview to a fixed amount of dp. This will prevent the textview from streching beyond the width and height you declared. Like this:
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_heigth="50dp"

For me the solution was to use
android:layout_width="0dp"
together with
android:maxLines="1"

How to set a long string in a text view in a single line with horizontal scroll

actually i have keep one scrollview. Inside that scroll view I set one textview at run time I want to set text in that textview. The string which I'm going to set is some what big in length so i could not get the string in a single line and i can get my string two or three lines. My scroll view layout width size is 250px. I dont want to exceed that size...My expectation is i want to see that string within that scrollview as single line if the string is exceeds the scroll size then it should horizontally scroll in text view. I tried some functions like setting horizontal scroll to scrollview and textview but nothing is work out.
Pls help me how to solve this problem.
urs,
s.kumaran.

you have to use these two Xml attributes in your TextView widget:
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:singleLine="true"
So your xml layout must contain something like this:
<TextView
android:text="Single-line text view that scrolls automatically if the text is too long to fit in the widget"
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit ="marquee_forever"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
you can get the correspondant method for these attributes if you are creating Your TextView with code, refer to TextView documentation :
setHorizontallyScrolling(boolean)
setTransformationMethod(TransformationMethod)
setMarqueeRepeatLimit(int)

try this ,,
TextView.setHorizontallyScrolling(true)
TextView.setLines(1);
where did you add the textview..Inside scrollview we able to add only one view...

Take TextView and HorizontalScrollView. Just put textview inside the HorizontalScrollView. And yes make sure to mentioned android:singleLine="true" inside the TextView.

I had the same issue with a TextView inside a table and nothing detailed here solved the fact that it wouldn't scroll horizontally (automatically, which might not be the desired effect from OP, but it's quite unclear).
While comparing some code that did work, I found out the TextView must be selected for scrolling to start:
TextView text_view = new TextView(context);
text_view.setLines(1);
text_view.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
text_view.setMarqueeRepeatLimit(-1); // At this point the view is not scrolling!
...
text_view.setSelected(true); // Get scrolling to start
Seems crazy, but it works.

for me, this one line in the EditText xml was enough:
android:singleLine="true"

You didn't specify if this was in XML or java code, but here's the java code to get that working:
// Allow textView to scroll
textView.setSingleLine(true);
textView.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
textView.setMarqueeRepeatLimit(-1);
textView.setSelected(true);
textView.setPadding(10, 0, 10, 0);
The only unnecessary item here is the padding, which I find to look best so the text does not touch the border of our 250px TextView.