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Textview width doens't adjust after change content

I'm trying to update the content of a TextView with the data introduced by an EditText. But after change the text, if the original text (hint) was bigger than the new text, the width doens't change.
I have the next string in the Hint Attribute of the TextView, "Please, introduce a amount". If I put 25'5, for example, the textview doesn't resize it width.
First Screen
Second Screen
The Euro symbol is invisible behind the textview, and It's shown after insert some value.
The piece of code for the Amount:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rlImporte"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/rel_layout_colors"
android:clickable="true"
android:paddingTop="8dp"
android:paddingBottom="8dp">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/lst_img3"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_margin="5sp"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:src="#drawable/icon_importe"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvImporte"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="false"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/lst_img3"
android:text="#string/IMPORTE_TITLE_STRING"
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:textSize="#dimen/title_text_size" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvImporteDesc"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/tvImporte"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/lst_img3"
android:textColor="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:textSize="#dimen/subtitle_text_size"
android:visibility="visible"
android:hint="#string/IMPORTE_PLACEHOLDER_STRING"
android:textColorHint="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:ellipsize="start"
android:layout_marginRight="4dp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvEuroSymbol"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/tvImporte"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/tvImporteDesc"
android:textColor="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:textSize="#dimen/subtitle_text_size"
android:visibility="gone"
android:hint="#string/euro_symbol"
android:textColorHint="#color/blue_quantion"
android:ellipsize="start"
android:paddingLeft="4dp" />
</RelativeLayout>

You seem like you want to change the width of tvImporteDesc dynamically. The short of it is that Android does not allow this, though some people have developed work arounds. (Toggling the visibility that some answers suggest did not work for me). Similar questions:
Change Relative layout width and height dynamically
WRAP_CONTENT not working after dynamically adding views
Since you are trying to fit text on the same line it might be easier to use a single TextView for that line of text, and concatenate the euro symbol?

GridLayout column is going beyond its bounds

I'm trying to make a grid-like form, similar to the example on the official Android Developers blog.
Here is my layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<GridLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="48dp"
android:layout_marginRight="48dp"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:columnCount="2"
android:rowCount="2">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_column="0"
android:layout_gravity="end"
android:layout_row="0"
android:text="Send"
android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorPrimary"
android:textSize="24sp" />
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/send_currency"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_column="1"
android:layout_row="0" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_column="0"
android:layout_gravity="end"
android:layout_row="1"
android:text="to"
android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorPrimary"
android:textSize="24sp" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_column="1"
android:layout_row="1"
android:hint="username"
android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorPrimary"
android:textSize="24sp" />
</GridLayout>
</LinearLayout>
My left column (static text, right-aligned) is working fine. It aligns the text to the right, and the width is dependent on the widest row.
However, the right column seems to be drawing way outside of the bounds of the GridLayout.
In that picture, the blue box is the bounds of the GridLayout. You can already see the problem in the green bar at the top. The right side is supposed to be stopping at the bounds of the GridLayout (like the left side is), but for some reason it's going way past it.
The blue box in that picture is the bounds of the EditText (it's set to wrap_content). However, the aqua-colored box is the bounds in which it's allowed to expand. When I type lots of characters into the EditText, it goes past the GridLayout's bounds, and even past the edge of the phone screen!
Is this a bug in GridLayout? Or am I missing something?

That is 'normal' behavior of GridLayout.
Fortunately, there is a new version of GridLayout, which was added with API 21. Thanks of that fact, you can make GridLayout accomodates children to its either width or height according as its orientation.
To know details look at documentation, especially at Class Overview -> Excess Space Distribution. You can find there info how to use GridLayout in the way you want.
Tip:
Don't forget that to make use of new GridLayout, you need to add it as support library and in xmls you should use:
<android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout ... >
instead of
<GridLayout ... >

I found this answer to be helpful. Also, paulina_glab's answer of using <android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout instead of just <GridLayout - thanks!
In particular these attributes on each cell:
android:layout_width="0dp"
app:layout_columnSpan="1"
app:layout_columnWeight="1"
app:layout_rowSpan="1"
Hope it helps.

You can restrict edittext to single line.
<EditText
...
android:singleLine="true"
android:lines="1"
android:maxLines="1"
android:hint="to"></EditText>

Definitely odd. What happens if you constrain the width of the EditText to "match_parent" instead of "wrap_content" (which should constrain its horizontal width to within the grid cell)?
i.e.
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_column="1"
android:layout_row="1"
android:hint="username"
android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorPrimary"
android:textSize="24sp" />
or, alternatively, give your EditText a right margin to try and push that right hand border in a little bit? e.g.
android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
and see if that makes a difference?

Text being truncated in TextView with width set to wrap_content

I'm trying to create a simple component in my layout, where there are two TextViews horizontally next to each other. The one on the right should start where the one on the left finishes. My code for this is as follows:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textIsSelectable="false"
android:textSize="25sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="20sp" />
</LinearLayout>
I programmatically set the text on each TextView after the view has rendered. However, sometimes the text does not display correctly in the first TextView- I can see that the width has been set correctly, as the second TextView is not next to it, but the text is truncated rather than using the space. If I lock/unlock the device to refresh the screen then the text displays correctly (without the widths of the TextViews changing).
I've tried changing this to use a RelativeLayout, but I see the same issue.
Any ideas?

Although i dont understant what exactly you mean, would suggest you to use weightSum property in the parent view and android:layout_weight in child views. The same allows to put many child views inside a parent view with respect to ratio (like navigation tabs).
for eg :
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="1" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textIsSelectable="false"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:layout_weight="0.4" /> //60% width
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text2"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_weight="0.6" /> //40% width
</LinearLayout>
also, dont forget to put the width if child views as 0dp. as that will result in ignoring the calculations regarding the width of view. or you can set the width of child view as "match_parent" as well. any other property to width will not work. (and if you want half matchparent for both child views set layout_width to 0.5 both views.. ithink thats obvious to note)
Hopw it helps.

android make left textview to be shorten and right remain fully visible

I need to display two single-line TextViews horizontally. The left TextView (let's name it 1) may have a longer text which may shortened and finished with "...". The right text view (2) has a short text and should never get shortened.
I want the 1 to remain aligned to the left end of the parent. The 2 aligned to the right side of 1.
There are now 2 conditions that I have to meet
a) if the 1 has a short text then the 2 should get aligned to the right of 1 (none of the gets shortened).
b) but if the 1 has a too long text then the text of 1 should be shortened by '...' while the view 2 is moved maximally to the right of the parent but still remains fully visible (no ...)
My current solution is the following below. The scenario b) is fine with mine, but in case of a) the problem is that the view 2 is moved to the right side of the parent and the 1 to the left side - both are short and there's pretty much space in between which looks odd. I want 2 to move to the further left (next to 1) and leave this space on the right side.
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
android:layout_weight="0.5">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/ns_in_txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:gravity="top|left"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/ns_txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/ns_in_txt"
android:gravity="top|left"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp" />
</RelativeLayout>

Try doing this
<RelativeLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_context"
android:layout_marginTop="1dp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/ns_in_txt"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:gravity="left"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/ns_txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/ns_in_txt"
android:gravity="left"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp" />
</RelativeLayout>

Apparently, you want two scenarios which require to set a different orientation to the parent layout: first horizontal, second vertical. Maybe I'm wrong (and I hope so but) in static xml, there will be difficult to do this.
Try the code below to test if I'm wrong:
Scenario 1: orientation horizontal = the text 1 is not big enough
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textLong"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:text="This is a normal text not big" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textShort"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:text="short text" />
</LinearLayout>
Scenario 2: orientation vertical = the text 1 is too big
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textLong"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:text="This is a biiiggg loooonnng teeeeexxxxxtttt" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textShort"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:text="short text" />
</LinearLayout>
To resolved your issue, you can try 2 solutions.
First, try to create a maxLenght limit, which calculate in your Activity and change the parent orientation of the LinearLayout. Get the number of chars that you have and display the orientation as well.
Second, customise your own class extend TextView. And create a getWidth method which return the width of the long TextView in comparison to it parent and change the orientation.
Maybe the following questions/answers could be useful (I think there are not solutions but more as inspiration):
In Android how to get the width of the Textview which is set to Wrap_Content
Get the size of a text in TextView
How to find android TextView number of characters per line?
Auto Scale TextView Text to Fit within Bounds
EDIT:
I found a solution with the last url that I writed above. See this answer where the dev wanted to make the same as you. So he decided to create a autoresizable textview. Take a look here: Move two side by side textviews to be one under another if text is too long
I hope this will help you.

May I suggest to use combination of LinearLayout and a little bit of coding. The idea is to have them side by side regardless of the size. and after the right textview is measured and laid out, set the max width of the left textview to whatever space left.
Here is the layout file, nothing special here:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/ns_in_txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:gravity="top|left"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/ns_txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:ellipsize="none"
android:gravity="top|left"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="#00a2ff"
android:textSize="18sp" />
</LinearLayout>
and add some codes to the activity/fragment:
final TextView tvLeft = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.ns_txt);
final TextView tvRight = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.ns_in_txt);
ViewTreeObserver obs = tvRight.getViewTreeObserver();
obs.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
tvLeft.setMaxWidth(SCREEN_WIDTH - tvRight.getWidth());
}
});

Making EditText and Button same height in Android

I have an EditText and a Button in my LinearLayout and I want to align them closely together so they see seem to belong together (edittext + micButton for speech input).
Now they don't have the same height and they aren't really aligned well (Button seems to be a little lower than the EditText). I know I can apply a negative margin like -5dp to make them come closer together, but is there perhaps a better way to do this?
Set them in a specific container/layout so that they will automatically have the same height and no margin between them?

Using relative layout you can stretch a view depending upon another views size without knowing the exact size of the other view.
Here is the code :
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
<Button
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:text="button"
android:id="#+id/but"/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/but"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/but"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/but"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
Check this link for reducing space between views :
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-developers/RNfAxbqbTIk

Hmm, don't know why people bother so much with tables. Since the both Views are within a LinearLayout (presumable orientation=Horizontal), this command should center both within the layout:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" />
</LinearLayout>
Note: Since EditTexts and Buttons may orient their text slightly differently, you may have to do some tweaking (by changing margins or padding) to get the text to align properly.

I hope this solution might help for your scenario...Here is the code..
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rlLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:padding="3dp" >
<EditText
android:id="#+id/etId"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="50dip"
android:background="#c8c8c8"
android:hint="Edittext"
android:paddingLeft="20dip"
android:paddingRight="10dip"
android:textColor="#000000" />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rlLayoutid"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/etId" >
<Button
android:layout_width="30dp"
android:layout_height="30dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginRight="14dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:background="#drawable/calender" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

# Daniel Here You can use layout weight and weight sum
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="center"
android:weight_sum=2
>
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight=1
android:text="button"
android:id="#+id/but"/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight=1
/>
</LinearLayout>

Android tries to automatically level everything off of the text and not the buttons themselves.
Took me forever to finally figure it out. Its really simple. Should fix it.
myButton.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);
or if they are in a row.. attach the buttons to a table row, then.
myTableRow.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL);