Having fiddled with this for longer than I care to admit, how does text alignment work within a TextView?
Obviously I'm trying to get the 'N' to centre itself vertically in the TextView.
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/titleN"
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:height="114dp"
android:textSize="120dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/textView3"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="center"/>
When I remove height it looks like:
The problem is that the TextView's height(114dp) is smaller than the size of the text (120dp) itself, remove the height attribute from the TextView, you don't need this line
android:height="114dp" // you need to remove this attribute from the TextView
What you need is android:gravity="center_vertical"
when the gravity of the textview is set for center_vertical text will remain in the center irrespective of the textView's height
Example:-
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="N"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
Output
as per #Keshav's link to https://stackoverflow.com/a/6594320/2346980, setting android:layout_marginTop to a negative value corrected the text position inside TextView.
Try using maring attributes, like margin-top or margin-bottom. If that doesnt work try using padding, like padding-top or padding-bottom
I need to right align my text in a TextView like this.
How to achieve this?
Below is my layout.xml file's textview
<TextView
android:id="#+id/sampleTextView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#+id/dummyTextView"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/dummyTextView"
android:gravity="right" />
Did you try?
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtItemDay"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center_vertical|right"
android:text="Your text"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="22sp" />
The problem is:
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
You could not align text in TextView if you set with is wrap_content, please set fill_parent or match_parent or specified witdh.
You're using android:layout_width="wrap_content" which means its not able to set the gravity because you don't have enough space for the text to align. Try using this instead:
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
I am wondering how to have a TextView display its content on several lines without hardcoding the width in the XML.
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="right"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:singleLine="false"
android:text="Long multiline text"/>
<TextView
android:textColor="#color/text_color"
android:layout_width="130dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Any thought welcome.
EDIT: my problem is that when the text exceeds the width set (because it reaches the end of the screen) a portion of the text is just not displayed. I would expect the text to be split on two lines
Though I cannot reproduce the not wrapping problem, you can fix the positioning problem by using a weight on the first TextView. Using the following XML gives the expected output in the graphical layout view in Eclipse:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="right"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:singleLine="false"
android:text="Long multiline text"/>
<TextView
android:textColor="#color/text_color"
android:layout_width="130dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Also add
android:minLines="2"
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
You could try
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
in your TextView XML. This worked for me.
I think I had very similar problem. I had a TextView with a text, where I was not sure how much lines will it take. It was encapsulated by a LinearLayout having android:layout_width="match_parent" to ensure my text will fill out all the space horizontally. However, the problem was that my text did not fit into 1 line and when it did break into a new line, the next view component below it did not move downwards to give enough space for the second line to be viewable fully.
I could achieve the solution by changing the LinearLayout that was containing my TextView into a RelativeLayout. By this way, the element below the text (actually below the Layout itself) was moved automatically to give enough space for the multi-line text.
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 have a ListView that displays a bunch of homework assignments. The ListView items use a FrameLayout to position two TextViews. The first TextView is aligned to the left, and the second is aligned to the right. (Both are aligned in the center vertically.) The first displays a snippet of the assignment description, and the second displays the due date.
What I want to do is make it so that the due date takes up as much space as it needs and the description fills up the remaining space, like so:
|----------------------------------------------------|
| Read pgs 15-35, update tim... Fri, May 4|
|----------------------------------------------------|
Right now the description text will continue on to overlap the date. It will truncate at the end of the line though.
Is there anyway I can do this in XML, or do I have to do it in code by shortening the string before I set the TextView value (presumably in my getView call)? If I did it in code, I'd have to calculate the amount of horizontal space the strings would take up figure out how short the description needs to be. That seems like it could get messy...
Any other suggestions on how to accomplish this are greatly appreciated!
Try using the ellipsize attribute like :
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"/>
Note that Android, or at least some versions, require both the "ellipsize" and the "singleline" attributes in order for the system to actually do the truncation and add the ellipsis.
Instead of a FrameLayout, this is the perfect place for a LinearLayout or RelativeLayout in combination with ellipsize:
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
...
android:width="0dp"
android:height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:ellipsize="end" />
<TextView
...
android:width="wrap_content"
android:height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0" />
</LinearLayout>
Or alternately
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
...
android:id="#+id/secondTV"
android:width="wrap_content"
android:height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0" />
<TextView
...
android:width="0dp"
android:height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/secondTV"
android:ellipsize="end"/>
</RelativeLayout>
Change the FrameLayout to a LinearLayout or RelativeLayout.
LinearLayout: Make the due date width "wrap_content" and the description width 0dp, then add layout_weight="1" to the description
RelativeLayout: Layout the due date first with width wrap_content, then layout the description with a rule that it should be to the left of the due date.
Both Anton and JRaymond were pretty much on (JRaymond helped me figure it out with his example). This is what I came up with:
<RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView android:id="#+id/due_date"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:singleLine="true" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/description"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/due_date"
android:singleLine="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
(I needed to declare my due date label first so that I could reference it in the description. I also just realized that the android:ellipsize seems to be optional -- I guess it defaults to "end".)
Thanks a bunch!