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Make the itemtext in a listview not show in full if it's a long text

I have an listview and I need help with it. I'd like to keep the text in one "row" if would call it that.
So what I mean is, it doesnt matter how long the text is, if it's longer than the "witdh" then instead of showing the full text on two "rows" it should just fill that witdh and like, end it with ... or something else. The purpose of this is ofcourse so that all my rows in the listview are of the same size, or else it looks rlly amateurish and cheap ..
How can I do this?
Thanks for help!

Give the TextView that holds the long text following attributes
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
This will ensure that long text is displayed in a single line end with "..." at the end.
Found in android doc: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:ellipsize

Creating multiline Edit view in android with coding

I have created an EditText object dynamically but I haven't been able to create a multi-line EditText. I have tried this:
EditText et1 = new EditText(this);
et1.setHint("Enter Your Address");
et1.setSingleLine(false);
et1.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
et1.setInputType(android.text.InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_POSTAL_ADDRESS);
et1.setLines(7);
Thanks.

Include this in your code:
et1.setMaxLines(maxlines);
Or you can set the specific height for the edit text.

If you want the text to wrap to the next line, add TYPE_CLASS_TEXT to the MULTI_LINE flag:
textArea.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT|InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE);

It is the line:
et1.setInputType(android.text.InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_POSTAL_ADDRESS);
that is the problem. Take that out.
setMaxLines doesn't matter much unless you want to set a max number of lines. You should also avoid setting the height to something specific. WRAP_CONTENT works great.
Even changing it to:
et1.setInputType(android.text.InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE);
forces it to a single line edit, which seems odd.
This doesn't work either:
et1.setInputType(android.text.InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_SENTENCES);
which is really freakin irritating. Seems like an android bug...
You also might want to set the vertical scroll on and gravity so it can scroll up and down and starts in the top left.
et1.setGravity(Gravity.TOP|Gravity.LEFT);
et1.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(true);

What worked for me is:
et1.setSingleLine(false);
et1.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
et1.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(true);
et1.setMinLines(minLines);

how to make EditText field grow horizontally instead of vertically in android app

I have an edittext field. As I type and characters exceed the maxlength of it there appears a new row to continue typing. However, I want to avoid this behavior since there is map below it which is going down relatively.
I don't want to restrict the maxlength as well.
Can someone explain how do I solve this problem?

define following parameters in your xml under the edittext tag:
android:singleLine="true"

Correct me if Im wrong, but is't singleLine="true" depricated?
android:lines="1"

How to allow the user to select a text range in a TextView (Similar to EditText)

I've got a TextView that I would like to allow the user to select a range of text from within it. The TextView takes up the entire width and height of the device (minus some padding and a title at the top). In an EditText if you long-click you get a selection overlay that allows you to set your selection left and right bounds. I'd like this functionality in a TextView. I've read that in API level 9 (2.3) (http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3.html) there are new text selection controls, but I'm having difficulty implementing this. I'm doing this right now:
eic = new InputConnection( bookTextView );
eic.beginBatchEdit();
But it doesn't do anything noticable. Does anyone know how to use InputConnection correctly? Thanks.
Edit: I don't necessarily need to use what I was attempting above. I ultimately want to use either a TextView or an EditText which looks and feels like a TextView and be able to select text using a dragging cursor. Then I would like to manipulate the selected text with various context menu options (or a menu that pops up above the selected text).

Here is an idea.. Add an EditText with a TextView background, Here is an example
<EditText
android:text=" This is not an editable EditText"
android:id="#+id/EditText01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:textColor = "#android:color/white"
android:editable = "false"
android:cursorVisible="false"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background = "#android:drawable/dark_header">
</EditText>
add this to your xml in the place of TextView

You can enable the TextView's Spannable storage. See Highlight Text in TextView or WebView for an example.
See also:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Spanned.html

You could display the text in a WebView and enable text selection. If you want to only use a textview/edittext, here is an answer that might help you and here is information on the Spannable class that might help you accomplish what you want.

Actually, you do not have to develop this feature by yourself. You just need to use EditText instead TextView, while you set the android:editable of EditText to false. My idea is the same as sandy's.
My code is here, hope it may help you:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11026292/966405

After long internet surfing to find a solution, i prefered create my own class
https://github.com/orionsource/SelectableTextViewer
Goal features:
Easy to use - only one class
Support for text and Html.fromHtml
Can be in ScrollView with correct touches
Cursors can be redefined
Color of selection can be redefined

All the above solutions either too long or not working for me.
What you need is to add just textView.setTextIsSelectable(true)
in your activity or fragment or adapter.

Custom Position of Hint in Edit Text box.

I was wondering if there was any way that I could get a hint at the bottom of an Edit Text view -- and then the user to start entering text at the top of the box.
As a bonus question, is there any way I can make the hint NOT disappear once the user starts entering text.

You can set the position of the text using the "gravity" attribute (as noted at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setGravity(int)). So to put the text at the bottom you would have;
android:gravity="bottom"
And to answer your bonus question; No, you can't display the hint when text is entered into the edit text view. Displaying the hint only when the box is empty is the defined behaviour as noted at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setHint(int)
(and yes, I know the links are for TextView, but EditText derives all of its' text positioning and hint handling functionality from TextView).

Actually THERE IS a way to prevent hint from hiding, and it's a cool one :-)
It gives you the Floating Label look with smooth animation very easily and it's from android itself. No extra libraries and stuff.
Try this:
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Touch me and I'll fly!"/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
You can change the behaviour using other xml tags like android:gravity="start|center|end" and others.
As a BONUS, you can use error messages with it :-) Here's the link to that question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30953551/6474744
And sorry I do not have enough reputatuion to post images, so help yourself:
http://i0.wp.com/androidlift.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screenshot_2015-09-28-17-03-561.png
Enjoy :-)

The problem with using both android:gravity and android:hint is that they are inter-linked with regard to cursor position.When you position the hint using gravity and you start entering text, it is entered in the same position as the your hint which is a problem if you want it to start traditionally on the top-left corner.