Here is my problem - I want TextView to fit | exactly from the left at least but even though I've set gravity to left, there are still some "empty pixels" to the left of | sign in the TextView and I want to prevent it from happening. How should I approach this problem?
Here are properties of a TextView I want to achieve the effect on:
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="|"
android:typeface="monospace"
android:textColor="#ff16de2e"
android:id="#+id/cursor"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal|left"
android:textSize="60sp"
android:clickable="false"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:layout_toEndOf="#+id/startButton"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/startButton"
android:background="#ff000000"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/startButton"
android:layout_alignEnd="#+id/startButton"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/startButton"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/startButton" />
Try setting this for your TextView.
android:includeFontPadding="false"
and to make sure the View does not extend beyond it's content use
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
If this still doesn't look like what you want, you can manually play with TextView's padding and do something like this:
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="\u007C"
android:includeFontPadding="false"
android:padding="-1.5dp"
android:layout_margin="0dp"/>
I really cannot figure out why, but I am only able to get ellipsize working on maxLines=2 and more. I am displaying a few words of description and then a long string with no spaces.
This is how the TextView looks like:
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:textColor="#757575"
android:text="#string/gcm_not_registered"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:id="#+id/login_gcmRegistrationTextView"/>
I then programatically set a text to it, but depending on the maxLines limitation, I get two different results:
The only thing that changed was the maxLines, why isn't the line filled in the first picture as well?
There are two ways to fix it:
Try to change android:ellipsize="end" attribute to android:ellipsize="marquee".
Try to remove android:maxLines="1" android:ellipsize="end" attributes and add android:singleLine="true" attribute.
This code works for me:
In the xml add:
Attribute ellipsize: marquee
Attribute lines: 1
In java:
<yourTextView>.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
<yourTextView>.setSelected(true);
If there is another item that request the "focus" you lose the marquee effect. The textView need the state selected to prevent this.
Actually the problem is with the spannable text, if you set spannable text this wouldn't work. Other than this below code works for me
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_second"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="40dp"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:padding="5dp"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-condensed"
android:textColor="#b3277b"
android:background="#f7ecff"
android:layout_below="#id/tv"
android:text="This is first line\nThis is second line\nThis is third line"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="2"
/>
I have a TextView in my layout which is wrap_content in layout_width. It is limited to maximum of 15 characters so I'm using maxLength.
I need to end this TextView with 3 dots (...) and it happens only when I give the layout_width a fixed size in dp, something that I don't want to do.
I know it is possible programmatically by trimming the string after the 15th character and then adding the 3 dots, but I prefer to do that by XML.
Any idea how to end the text with 3 dots and leave it wrap_content?
<TextView
android:id="#+id/inbox_contactName"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:lines="1"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:maxLength="15"
android:textColor="#0670b4"
android:textSize="16sp" />
This will solve your problem, Use ellipsize Property in your XML Code
android:ellipsize="end" <!-- This makes the magic ... thing -->
android:maxEms="15" <!-- Limit of the Text -->
android:singleLine="true" <!-- In case if you want everything in one line -->
Edit: singleLine is deprecated. Use maxlines="1" instead.
You cannot use both maxLength and Ellipsize although you can define Maximum EMS see the example below
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_hist_source_lang"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxEms="8"
android:maxLines="1"
android:text="TextView"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
I gather (from comment) that #Yaniv already solved it using code - but this is the right way to do it (with xml). May help other users who land here. Trick is to use both toleftof and torightof.
<RelativeLayout>
...
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/some_element1"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/some_element2"/>
...
<RelativeLayout>
You can use
android:maxWidth="100dp"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
Only this works for me.
One of the easiest way is to add Right Padding + Ellipsize
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtvw_contentcell_subhead"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Polem sampler, Lorem Ipsum golep tolem burop yemit noski"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
android:textColor="#color/caption_black_color"
android:textSize="#dimen/caption_size"
android:paddingRight="40dp"/>
Here is an example Subtitle Text with char limit.
use this android:ellipsize="end"
Tried most of the solutions above. Using maxWidth was the key for me:
android:maxWidth="100dp"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
Very Important: ellipsize = "end" only works when maxLength is set to a value that is more than the number of characters on one line.
You can use wrap_content if you align the TextView's end and start to any other view(s).
I needed to do this with Radio Button and I wanted to limit the size to one line. When I used Android:singleline="true", radio button's check circle disappeared. Here's the code that finally worked:
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
There's no need to set ems. This will probably work also in TextView and other UI components. Hope this helps to someone.
You can just modify the String when it's length is above 20 to add the ellipsize.
remove the line from xml
android:lines="1"
android:maxLines="1"
I have a TextView that I want to limit characters of it. Actually, I can do this but the thing that I'm looking for is how to add three dots (...) at the end of string. This one shows the text has continue. This is my XML but there is no dots although it limit my text.
<TextView
android:id = "#+id/tvFixture"
android:layout_width = "wrap_content"
android:layout_height = "wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf = "#id/ivFixture_Guest"
android:text = "#string/test_06"
android:lines = "1"
android:ems = "3"
android:gravity = "right"
style = "#style/simpletopic.black"
android:ellipsize="end"/>
Deprecated:
Add one more property android:singleLine="true" in your Textview
Updated:
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
The following is what I learned by playing around with various options for forcing a TextView to a single line (with and without the three dots).
android:maxLines="1"
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:text="one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" />
This just forces the text to one line. Any extra text is hidden.
Related:
android:maxLines
android:singleLine (Note this and this)
android:lines
ellipsize="end"
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:text="one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" />
This cuts off the text that doesn't fit but lets users know that the text has been truncated by adding an ellipsis (the three dots).
Related:
ellipsize="start" (...aaabbbccc)
ellipsize="middle" (aaa...ccc)
android: Ellipsise , meaning of the options
ellipsize="marquee"
<TextView
android:id="#+id/MarqueeText"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:text="one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" />
This makes the text scroll automatically across the TextView. Note that sometimes it needs to be set in code:
textView.setSelected(true);
Supposedly android:maxLines="1" and android:singleLine="true" should do basically the same thing and since singleLine is apparently deprecated I would prefer not to use it, but when I take it out, the marquee doesn't scroll anymore. Taking maxLines out doesn't affect it, though.
Related:
Marquee text in Android
HorizontalScrollView with scrollHorizontally
<HorizontalScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/horizontalScrollView">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:text="one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" />
</HorizontalScrollView>
This allows the user to manually scroll to see the whole line of text.
Try this property of TextView in your layout file..
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
I take it you want to limit width to one line and not limit it by character? Since singleLine is deprecated, you could try using the following together:
android:maxLines="1"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:ellipsize="end"
eg. you can use
android:maxLength="13"
this will restrict texview length to 13 but problem is if you try to add 3 dots(...), it wont display it, as it will be part of textview length.
String userName;
if (data.length() >= 13) {
userName = data.substring(0, 13)+ "...";
} else {
userName = data;
}
textView.setText(userName);
apart from this you have to use
android:maxLines="1"
Use
android:singleLine="true"
android:maxLines="1"
app:layout_constrainedWidth="true"
It's how my full TextView looks:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/message_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="5dp"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="NAME PLACEHOLDER MORE Text"
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
app:layout_constrainedWidth="true"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="#id/message_check_sign"
app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0"
app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="#id/img_chat_contact"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#id/img_chat_contact" />
I am using Horizonal Recyclerview.
1) Here in CardView, TextView gets distorted vertically when using
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
Check the bold TextViews Wyman Group, Jaskolski...
2) But when I used singleLine along with ellipsize -
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
Check the bold TextViews Wyman Group, Jaskolski...
2nd solution worked for me properly (using singleLine). Also I have tested in OS version: 4.1 and above (till 8.0), it's working fine without any crashes.
Steps to add '...' at end of the text if it is too long:
check that the text width is constant
add these two lines
android:ellipsize="end" android:maxLines="1"
Complete code of textview in constraint layout:
<TextView
android:layout_width="75dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
android:textSize="15sp"
android:textAllCaps="false"
android:textStyle="bold"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="parent" />
code:
TextView your_text_view = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.your_id_textview);
your_text_view.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
xml:
android:maxLines = "5"
e.g.
In Matthew 13, the disciples asked Jesus why He spoke to the crowds in parables. He answered, "It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Output:
In Matthew 13, the disciples asked Jesus why He spoke to the crowds in parables. He answered, "It has been given to you to know...
I got the desired result by using
android:maxLines="2"
android:minLines="2"
android:ellipsize="end"
The trick is set maxLines and minLines to the same value... and Not just android:lines = "2", dosen't do the trick.
Also you are avoiding any deprecated attributes.
You can limit your textview's number of characters and add (...) after the text.
Suppose You need to show 5 letters only and thereafter you need to show (...), Just do the following :
String YourString = "abcdefghijk";
if(YourString.length()>5){
YourString = YourString.substring(0,4)+"...";
your_text_view.setText(YourString);
}else{
your_text_view.setText(YourString); //Dont do any change
}
a little hack ^_^. Though its not a good solution. But a work around which worked for me :D
EDIT:
I have added check for less character as per your limited no. of characters.
You need to add following lines into your layout for the textview
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
Hope this works for you.
In order to work with the android:ellipsize attribute, you have to limit the layout width of the TextView, such that the text is out of bounds from view of TextView.
So, android:layout_width attribute plays a key role here, set it accordingly.
One example can be:
<TextView
android:layout_width="120dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:text="This is a very long text to be displayed"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:maxLines="1"
/>
Now, here if the text in android:text="This is a very long text to be displayed" goes out of view from TextView with a android:layout_width="120dp", android:ellipsize="end" will truncate the text and place ...(3 dots) after it. i.e. This is very long... will be displayed in the TextView.
<TextView
android:id="#+id/product_description"
android:layout_width="165dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
android:paddingLeft="12dp"
android:paddingRight="12dp"
android:text="Pack of 4 summer printed pajama"
android:textColor="#d2131c"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:maxLines="2"
android:ellipsize="end"/>
I think you give fix height and width of text view. Then your solution will work.
you can write this line in xml where you take the textview :
android:singleLine="true"
The approach of #AzharShaikh works fine.
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
But I realize a trouble that TextView will be truncated by word (in default). Show if we have a text like:
test long_line_without_any_space_abcdefgh
the TextView will display:
test...
And I found solution to handle this trouble, replace spaces with the unicode no-break space character, it makes TextView wrap on characters instead of words:
yourString.replace(" ", "\u00A0");
The result:
test long_line_without_any_space_abc...
Apart from
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
you should set
android:layout_width="0dp"
also know as "match constraint", because the wrap_content value just expands the box to fit the whole text, and the ellipsize property can't make its effect.
Simple for three dots
android:layout_width="100dp" <!--your dp or match_parent or 0dp>
android:maxLines="2" <!--count your line>
android:ellipsize="end"
Add These two lines in your text
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
you can do that by xml:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview"
android:maxLines="1" // or any number of lines you want
android:ellipsize="end"
/>
set android:maxLength="8" in Textview
if you want to set yourString >5. then set textview length 5+3 (for three-dot)
if (yourString.length()>5) //
{
textview.setText(yourString.substring(0,5)+"...");
}
else {
textview.setText(title);
}
1.set static width like 7odp
2.use android:ellipsize="end"
3.use android:maxLines="1"
4.use android:singleLine="true"
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_status"
**android:layout_width="70dp"**
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginEnd="#dimen/padding_8"
android:gravity="center|center_horizontal"
android:includeFontPadding="false"
android:textColor="#color/black_2a"
android:textSize="#dimen/text_size_1"
**android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"**
app:layout_constrainedWidth="true"
app:borrowStatusText="#{item.lenders[0].status}"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="#id/iv_vector"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
In this way you can set the maximum length of the view and, at the same time, you will have dots at the end ("num" is your number of dp):
android:maxWidth="{num}dp"
android:ellipsize="end"
You just change ...
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
Use this below line
android:layout_width="match_parent"
.......
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/visitBox"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txvrequestTitle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Abcdefghighiklmnon"
android:textAppearance="?
android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:textColor="#color/orange_color" />
</LinearLayout>
I am working on Android 3.0.
I have a TextView on my layout and I want it to be faded after 8 characters like in the main menu. This Text is located in RelativeLayout.
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/item_name"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:maxWidth="50dp"
android:maxLength="8"
android:layout_below="#+id/item_frame"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/item_view"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:fadingEdge="horizontal">
</TextView>
Does anyone has an idea how to fade the text after few characters?
I think you need to combine fadingEdge with ellipsize and singleLine, and even then it will only happen if the text is longer than the control's width.