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How can I limit the area of chip items (the wrap area) to 2 lines max inside the ChipGroup?

I am trying to implement a ChipGroup with some chip items inside it. Which works fine so far. But My requirement is to show these items inside the ChipGroup with certain number of rows. As example: I have 20 items as chip inside my group, And only 6/7 items fits in between the 2 lines. So, I want to show the chips which fit into the ChipGroup between 2 lines only.
Currently I am getting this (sample) output:
And my expectation is like below:
Additional queries:
Is it possible to get the current row count of chip items from the
ChipGroup? If yes how?
Can I set the maximum visible rows for the ChipGroup
programatically?

I use customer view to make this feature.
public class AppChipGroup extends ChipGroup {
private static final int[] MAX_HEIGHT_ATTRS = {android.R.attr.maxHeight};
private int mMaxHeight = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
public AppChipGroup(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public AppChipGroup(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
this(context, attrs, 0);
}
public AppChipGroup(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
TypedArray typedArray = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, MAX_HEIGHT_ATTRS);
mMaxHeight = typedArray.getDimensionPixelSize(0, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
typedArray.recycle();
}
#SuppressLint("RestrictedApi")
#Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
int height = Math.min(getMeasuredHeight(), mMaxHeight);
setMeasuredDimension(getMeasuredWidth(), height);
}
}
then when use ChipGroup, set the maxHeight value.
<packagename.chip.AppChipGroup
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.ChipGroup"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxHeight="#dimen/search_input_history_max_height"
app:chipSpacing="#dimen/search_input_history_chip_space" />
Or you can get the chip height and calculate the max_height in onMeasure method and set the measure dimension.

ExtendedChipGroup
U can set max lines and show/hide button
For this I created a class and inherited it from ChipGroup, next rewrote the onLayout method so that all elements that are after the visible line are hidden
<io.github.tiarait.extendedchipgroup.ExtendedChipGroup
android:id="#+id/chip_group"
app:maxRow="2"
app:itemSpacing="6dp"
app:additionalTextColor="#eee"
app:additionalChipColor="#color/colorDarkBtn"
app:additionalChipColorPressed="#color/colorDarkBtnSecondary"
app:additionalChipMore="#string/btn_show"
app:additionalChipHide="#string/btn_hide"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

How to make textView wrap its multiline content exactly?

How can I make the textview wrap such text exactly ?
android:width attribute is not a solution, because the text is dynamic.
Desired behaviour
|Adcs |
|adscfd|
Current behavour:
|Adcs |
|adscfd |
Hereis the code (styles of TextViews only define things like textColor, textSize, textStyle).
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text_title_holder"
style="#style/TextBold.Black.Title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:maxWidth="100dp"
android:maxLines="2"
android:text="Adcs adscfd"
android:gravity="left"
android:visibility="visible" />
The topic wrap_content width on mutiline TextView has no good answer.

I have faced this problem and didn't find the solution in internet. I did this trick by creating the new component TightTextView that remeasures the given text in case you have specified the maxWidth of the component and the width of Layout (of text) is less that the measured width of the view.
package com.client.android.app.views;
import android.content.Context;
import android.text.Layout;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;
/**
* Tightly wraps the text when setting the maxWidth.
* #author sky
*/
public class TightTextView extends TextView {
private boolean hasMaxWidth;
public TightTextView(Context context) {
this(context, null, 0);
}
public TightTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
this(context, attrs, 0);
}
public TightTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
#Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
if (hasMaxWidth) {
int specModeW = MeasureSpec.getMode(widthMeasureSpec);
if (specModeW != MeasureSpec.EXACTLY) {
Layout layout = getLayout();
int linesCount = layout.getLineCount();
if (linesCount > 1) {
float textRealMaxWidth = 0;
for (int n = 0; n < linesCount; ++n) {
textRealMaxWidth = Math.max(textRealMaxWidth, layout.getLineWidth(n));
}
int w = Math.round(textRealMaxWidth);
if (w < getMeasuredWidth()) {
super.onMeasure(MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(w, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST),
heightMeasureSpec);
}
}
}
}
}
#Override
public void setMaxWidth(int maxpixels) {
super.setMaxWidth(maxpixels);
hasMaxWidth = true;
}
#Override
public void setMaxEms(int maxems) {
super.setMaxEms(maxems);
hasMaxWidth = true;
}
}
!!! Just did port it to older android APIs, cuz getMaxWidth() is only available since API level 16.

This question is a little old now but I too had this problem where I wanted green text in a black box over a mapView and got around it by putting my textView in a RelativeLayout container. I then used padding to set the border size. The textView now hugs the text nicely.
My outline in eclipse looks like this.
RelativeLayout
mapview
LinearLayout
RelativeLayout
textView1 << this is the box I want to hug the text
imageView1
RelativeLayout
etc....
Hope this helps.

Android - Why is the TextView shown as having a height?

I've got an odd problem here. Basically I have a TextView with no default set text. I would've expected it to have a height of 0 since it hsas no content but there seems to be a gap between the elements above and below it. If I set the height to 0 in the XML and then try and change it through Java code then it does not reset the height.
How do I set the height to be 0 if the content is blank but then allow it to be changed programmatically?
Here is the code that I have:
<TextView
android:gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
android:id="#+id/connectionStatus"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:textSize="18px"
android:textStyle="bold">
</TextView>
and the Java code is this:
private void getConnectionStatus()
{
if (hasConnection() == true)
{
//do something
}
else
{
connectionStatus.setHeight(48);
connectionStatus.setText("No Internet Access");
}
}

Use visibility "gone" inside of the xml layout. Then in the Java code call connectionStatus.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

Components may still display themselves even if they don't have content. For example, the may display a border or their viewable area. In order to make it not show up at all you need to use setVisibility(View.GONE).

I've often wondered if this behaviour is intuitive. If you want a TextView that has no height when the text is empty you can make one:
import android.content.Context;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
public class NoHeightWhenEmptyTextView extends android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView {
public NoHeightWhenEmptyTextView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public NoHeightWhenEmptyTextView(Context context, #Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public NoHeightWhenEmptyTextView(Context context, #Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
}
#Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
int newHeightMeasureSpec = heightMeasureSpec;
if (TextUtils.isEmpty(getText())) {
newHeightMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.EXACTLY);
}
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, newHeightMeasureSpec);
}
#Override
public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
super.setText(text, type);
// ConstraintLayout totally ignores the new measured height after non-empty text is set.
// A second call to requestLayout appears to work around the problem :(
requestLayout();
}
}

Android: GridView width not wrapping to content?

I am trying to display a GridView in a Dialog. Despite all my efforts, the GridView width grows to the entire screen, instead of wrapping to the columns. The layout and an image depicting the issue are below (I set a background color for the GridView to illustrate the issue).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GridView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/colorgridview"
android:background="#FF00CCBB"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:numColumns="4"
android:verticalSpacing="5dp"
android:horizontalSpacing="5dp"
android:columnWidth="70dp"
android:stretchMode="none"
/>

I know that this post is a bit outdated. But if someone needs a solution to this, this answer may come in handy.
It is possible to set the view's width after screen measurement.
To do this:
Let your class implement the OnGlobalLayoutListener.
The screen is measured when the onGlobalLayout method is called. We can do our magic here.
GridView.getLayoutParams().width = ....
edit:
I wasn't very clear on how to add the onGlobalLayoutListener. See plugmind's post, he shows how to add it.
Can't figure out how to get view/layout width/height
Kind regards,
Bram

I think you should use android:layout_width="fill_parent" instead of android:layout_width="wrap_content" because wrap content use the minimum place it needs. On the other hand, fill_parent use all space needed. More over you should get rid of "android:columnWidth="70dp".

It's certainly possible to set a fixed layout_width (in dp). Since the number of your columns is also fixed, could this be a workaround for you?

Had the same problem...
I solved it with overridden onMeasure()
public class GridViewEx extends GridView {
private int mRequestedNumColumns = 0;
public GridViewEx(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public GridViewEx(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public GridViewEx(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
#Override
public void setNumColumns(int numColumns) {
super.setNumColumns(numColumns);
if (numColumns != mRequestedNumColumns) {
mRequestedNumColumns = numColumns;
}
}
#Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
if (mRequestedNumColumns > 0) {
int width = (mRequestedNumColumns * getColumnWidth())
+ ((mRequestedNumColumns-1) * getHorizontalSpacing())
+ getListPaddingLeft() + getListPaddingRight();
setMeasuredDimension(width, getMeasuredHeight());
}
}
}

Grid of images inside ScrollView

I'm trying to create a screen with both text and images. I want the images to be laid out like a grid, as shown below, but I want them to have no scroll functionality other that the one provided by the surrounding ScrollView.
An image will best illustrate my question:
<ScrollView>
<LinearLayout>
<ImageView />
<TextView />
<GridView />
<TextView />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
What is the best way to make show a grid of a varying number of images, where the grid does not have scroll functionality?
Please note that disabling the scroll functionality for the GridView does not work, as this just disables the scrollbars but does not show all items.
Update:
The image below shows what it looks like with scrollbars disabled in the GridView.

Oh boy, yeah, you're gonna have trouble with this one. It drives me nuts that ListViews and GridViews can't be expanded to wrap their children, because we all know that they have more beneficial features in addition to their scrolling and the recycling of their children.
Nonetheless, you can hack around this or create your own layout to suit your needs without too much difficulty. Off the top of my head, I can think of two possibilities:
In my own app I have embedded a ListView within a ScrollView. I have done this by explicitly telling the ListView to be exactly as high as its contents. I do it by changing the layout parameters right inside the ListView.onMeasure() method like so:
public class ExpandableListView extends ListView {
boolean expanded = false;
public ExpandableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defaultStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defaultStyle);
}
public boolean isExpanded() {
return expanded;
}
public void setExpanded(boolean expanded) {
this.expanded = expanded;
}
#Override
public void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
// HACK! TAKE THAT ANDROID!
if (isExpanded()) {
// Calculate entire height by providing a very large height hint.
// View.MEASURED_SIZE_MASK represents the largest height possible.
int expandSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(MEASURED_SIZE_MASK,
MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, expandSpec);
LayoutParams params = getLayoutParams();
params.height = getMeasuredHeight();
} else {
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
}
}
}
This works because when you give the ListView a mode of AT_MOST, it creates and measures all of its children for you, right inside the onMeasure method (I discovered this by browsing through the source code). Hopefully GridView behaves the same, but if it doesn't, you can still measure all the contents of the GridView yourself. But it would be easier if you could trick the GridView into doing it for you.
Now, you must keep in mind that this solution would completely disable the view recycling that makes GridView so efficient, and all those ImageViews will be in memory even if they're not visible. Same goes with my next solution.
The other possibility is to ditch the GridView and create your own layout. You could extend either AbsoluteLayout or RelativeLayout. For example, if you extend RelativeLayout, you could place each image LEFT_OF the previous one, keeping track of the width of each image until you run out of room on that row, and then start the next row by placing the first image of the new row BELOW the tallest image of the last row. To get the images horizontally centered or in equally-spaced columns you'll have to go through even more pain. Maybe AbsoluteLayout is better. Either way, kind of a pain.

A GridView with header and footer can be used instead of trying to embed GridView in ScrollView. Header and footer can be anything - texts, images, lists, etc. There is an example of GridView with header and footer: https://github.com/SergeyBurish/HFGridView

You have 2 solutions for this one:
Write your own custom layout. This would be the harder solution (but might be considered the correct one).
Set the real height of your GridView in the code. For example:
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) myGridView.getLayoutParams();
// lp.setMargins(0, 0, 10, 10); // if you have layout margins, you have to set them too
lp.height = measureRealHeight(...);
myGridView.setLayoutParams(lp);
The measureRealHeight() method should look something like this (hopefully I got it right):
private int measureRealHeight(...)
{
final int screenWidth = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getWidth();
final double screenDensity = getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
final int paddingLeft = (int) (X * screenDensity + 0.5f); // where X is your desired padding
final int paddingRight = ...;
final int horizontalSpacing = (int) (X * screenDensity + 0.5f); // the spacing between your columns
final int verticalSpacing = ...; // the spacing between your rows
final int columnWidth = (int) (X * screenDensity + 0.5f);
final int columnsCount = (screenWidth - paddingLeft - paddingRight + horizontalSpacing - myGridView.getVerticalScrollbarWidth()) / (columnWidth + horizontalSpacing);
final int rowsCount = picsCount / columnsCount + (picsCount % columnsCount == 0 ? 0 : 1);
return columnWidth * rowsCount + verticalSpacing * (rowsCount - 1);
}
The above code should work in Android 1.5+.

Create a non scrollable list view like this:
public class ExpandableListView extends ListView{
public ExpandableListView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public ExpandableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defaultStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defaultStyle);
}
public ExpandableListView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
#Override
public void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
int heightMeasureSpec_custom = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(
Integer.MAX_VALUE >> 2, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec_custom);
ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = getLayoutParams();
params.height = getMeasuredHeight();
}
}
In your layout file create an element like this:
<com.example.ExpandableListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
This should work.

I found a way to give the GridView a fixed size inside ScrollView, and enable scrolling it.
To do so, you would have to implement a new class extending GridView and override onTouchEvent() to call requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true).
Thus, the parent view will leave the Grid intercept touch events.
GridViewScrollable.java:
package com.example;
import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.widget.GridView;
public class GridViewScrollable extends GridView {
public GridViewAdjuntos(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public GridViewAdjuntos(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public GridViewAdjuntos(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
#Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev){
// Called when a child does not want this parent and its ancestors to intercept touch events.
requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true);
return super.onTouchEvent(ev);
}
}
Add it in your layout with the characteristics you want:
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:isScrollContainer="true" >
<com.example.GridViewScrollable
android:id="#+id/myGVS"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:clickable="true"
android:numColumns="auto_fit"
android:columnWidth="100dp"
android:stretchMode="columnWidth" />
</ScrollView>
And just get it in your activity and set the adapter, for example an ArrayAdapter<>:
GridViewScrollable mGridView = (GridViewScrollable) findViewById(R.id.myGVS);
mGridView.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, new String[]{"one", "two", "three", "four", "five"}));
I hope it helps =)

Try this
public static void setGridViewHeightBasedOnChildren(GridView gridView, int columns) {
ListAdapter listAdapter = gridView.getAdapter();
if (listAdapter == null)
return;
int desiredWidth = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(gridView.getWidth(), View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
int totalHeight = 0;
View view = null;
int rows = listAdapter.getCount() / columns;
if(listAdapter.getCount() % columns> 0){
rows++;
}
for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++) {
view = listAdapter.getView(i, view, gridView);
if (i == 0)
view.setLayoutParams(new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(desiredWidth, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
view.measure(desiredWidth, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
totalHeight += view.getMeasuredHeight();
}
ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = gridView.getLayoutParams();
params.height = totalHeight + (gridView.getHorizontalSpacing() * rows);
gridView.setLayoutParams(params);
gridView.requestLayout();
}

For GridView with other View inside of the save ScrollView to make it all scroll, go to this link: http://www.londatiga.net/it/programming/android/make-android-listview-gridview-expandable-inside-scrollview/#comment-3967742. It is helpful and have saved my time which I just spend 5 minute with this when I have never know about it.
Update:
From the link I have customize an ExpandedGridView:
public class ExpandedGridView extends GridView {
boolean expanded = false;
public ExpandedGridView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public ExpandedGridView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public ExpandedGridView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
public boolean isExpanded() {
return expanded;
}
#Override
public void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
// HACK! TAKE THAT ANDROID!
if (isExpanded()) {
// Calculate entire height by providing a very large height hint.
// But do not use the highest 2 bits of this integer; those are
// reserved for the MeasureSpec mode.
int expandSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(Integer.MAX_VALUE >> 2, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, expandSpec);
ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = getLayoutParams();
params.height = getMeasuredHeight();
} else {
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
}
}
public void setExpanded(boolean expanded) {
this.expanded = expanded;
}
}
For your xml change from GridView to the ExpandedGridView which have been customized.
<com.your.package.ExpandedGridView
android:id="#+id/home_screen_list_goals"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:numColumns="2" />
Usage:
Call it in your activity. If in fragment use contentView.findViewById(...). Which contentView is your whole layout defined.
ExpandedGridView gridView = (ExpandedGridView) findViewById(R.id.home_screen_list_goals);
//set data into grid view
gridView.setAdapter(YOUR_ADAPTER_OBJECT);
gridView.setExpanded(true);