How to limit a length of a text in android ListView?

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May I know how to limit the length of a text in listView ?

Below is the listView from wechat

and this is my listView

How to limit the length of text so it will display like this is the work description.Ple...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 21 '17 at 07:56

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If you set the TextView to both singleLine and ellipsize to end, then you should have the desired result.

For example:

<TextView
   ...
   android:singleLine="true"
   android:ellipsize="end"
/>

edited Mar 21 '17 at 07:56

John Joe

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answered Jan 22 '16 at 10:26

Knossos

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Madhur · Answer 2 · 2016-01-22T10:29:13.427

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Using filter in code (Programmatically in your java class)

InputFilter[] FilterArr = new InputFilter[1];
FilterArr[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(10);
editEntryView.setFilters(FilterArray);

or in your xml file as below

android:maxLength="10"

combined with

android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="end"

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answered Jan 22 '16 at 10:25

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 21 '17 at 07:56

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Try this:

int charactersLimit = 10;
String yourLargeString = "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
String yourFinalString = yourLargeString.substring(0, Math.min(yourLargeString.length(), charactersLimit));
yourTextView.setText(yourFinalString + "...");

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answered Jan 22 '16 at 10:28

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Although this would work, I think that the OP would prefer to avoid the potential for the line to roll over to the next. Unless the font is monospaced, having a character limit is going to introduce a lot of variability in the height of the view. If for example, the letters just happen to be wider than the average sampling. – Knossos Jan 22 '16 at 10:32

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 21 '17 at 07:55

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you can use Code in java :

tv.setSingleLine();
tv.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.MARQUEE);

and xml Code :

android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="end"

edited Mar 21 '17 at 07:55

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answered Jan 22 '16 at 10:28

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vikas singh · Answer 5 · 2017-08-02T11:00:50.063

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you can use code in java

       tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.txt_comentdata);
       tv.setMaxLines(3);
       tv.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END)

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answered Aug 02 '17 at 10:22

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Aug 23 '17 at 16:02

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You can use XML code:

android:singleLine="true"
android:maxLength="3"
android:ellipsize="end"

edited Aug 23 '17 at 16:02

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answered Aug 02 '17 at 10:25

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Can you add a bit of context about what you're doing? – Johnny Rockex Aug 23 '17 at 15:48

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