We are showing some text in our application (say in a RecyclerView with GridLayoutManager). This text is shown in different languages as highlighted in the image below. Due to this, the height of TextView is different as different language fonts are taking different spacing.
Please refer to the sample image below and the required code to draw the text view.
<com.google.android.material.textview.MaterialTextView
android:id="#+id/tv_title_one"
android:layout_width="0dp"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent="0.5"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:fontFamily="#font/lato_bold"
android:gravity="start"
android:maxLines="3"
android:minLines="1"
android:singleLine="false"
android:includeFontPadding="false"
android:textColor="#541388"
android:letterSpacing="0"
android:lineSpacingExtra="0dp"
android:textSize="32sp"
android:textStyle="normal"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
tools:text="Class 12th (Biology) 2021 - 2022" />
Dummy layout with two similar text views but with different language
Please let me know if there is anything missing in the problem description. Thanks for your valuable feedback.
Update #1:
Since there is no direct answer to it. We are going with making card height and text height-restricted as mentioned in the accepted answer.
I just think that the reason could come from the font you are trying to use for rending text in this TV. For every language, the character size maybe vary a bit from width to height due to the language specs.
Could you try to use the default system font to check if you still have that spacing issue?
Or another suggestion would be:
Use autoSizeMaxTextSize, autoSizeMinTextSize feature to allow text size being automatically resize to fix the textview when possible.
Apply a fix Height for your text content with extra Vertical Space, and add android:ellipsize as your wish.
Still wonder:
Is your app displaying multiple language at a same time on UI?
I am trying to make a layout like Telegram message box in android.
When the text is short the message and time are aligned in one single line as follows:
But when the message text is longer the time text view is pushed to the bottom of message like this:
How can i achieve this?
P.s. I tried to read the telegram source but wasn't able to figure it out. And i tried to get the size of my text view in adapter but wasn't successful.
Your shown example looks like a RelativeLayout with two TextViews in it (first TextView top-left and second TextView bottom-right).
It should be possible to accomplish this by using a RelativeLayout and two TextViews. The TextViews should be positioned correctly based on the length of the text (the second TextView displaying time should be always in bottom-right corner).
Actually they are not aligned in one line... :D I think you can achieve this by wrapping your TextView for time in RelativeLayout like that:
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:background="#drawable/background"
android:padding="10dp" >
<TextView style="#style/TextView_port"
android:id="#+id/text"
android:text="Text" />
<RelativeLayout style="#style/LinearLayout"
android:layout_below="#id/text"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:gravity="right" >
<TextView style="#style/TextView_port"
android:text="3:59pm"
android:textColor="#73B661" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Here i found a trick to set your text alignment to justify:
https://dzone.com/articles/android-%E2%80%93-how-display
EDIT
I finally came up with the solution - the edited code above is for short texts. Check programatically the length of the text and if it is more than 20 for example set orientation of the Linear to vertical and only top margin of the time TextView to -20 - I'll update my answer later if you don't know how :)
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"
Suddenly occurs problem with custom fonts.
When i apply comic font for text views,first letter is cut. I try to implement paddings and margins but unfortunately still first letter is cut.
Images that are presented describe this problem.
I consider this flow as well but no results.
This is xml textview implementation.
<com.alllarm.alllarm.AutoResizeTextView
android:id="#+id/settings_profile"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/my_profile"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="35sp" />
This issue is connected with wrong size of the textview.To solve this problem you need just adjust additional size to the textview item. Additionally this could be connected with wrong text font feature.
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>