TextView hides last word that my be patially visible

Question

For example we have combination of 2 words: "Firstword secondword". Textview have 1 line and it's width not big, so first word is visible, second to long to fit in rest space and it no visible: [Firstword______] How to achieve partial visibility of second word? Like this [Firstword secon] or [Firstword seco...](with ellipsize). Is it possible? I've seen in some topics that what I want is default behaviour when use ellipsize, but not in my case.

Edit: android:ellipsize="end" android:maxLines="1" work only in xml layout preview, but not work in runtime.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '16 at 11:20

Found the solution.

This xml:

<?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">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Helloooooooooooooooooooooo Wooooooooooooooooooooooooorld!"
        android:id="@+id/tv1"
        android:textColorLink="@android:color/holo_blue_dark"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:singleLine="true"/>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Helloooooooooooooooooooooo Wooooooooooooooooooooooooorld!"
        android:id="@+id/tv2"
        android:textColorLink="@android:color/holo_blue_dark"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:lines="1"/>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Helloooooooooooooooooooooo Wooooooooooooooooooooooooorld!"
        android:id="@+id/tv3"
        android:textColorLink="@android:color/holo_blue_dark"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:maxLines="1"/>
</LinearLayout>

render in design preview like

OK, all ellipsizes work here. But on real device it look like

android:singleLine="true" is only worked, in spite of it deprecated. Tested on 3 devices.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 18 '16 at 06:45

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Add these in your TextView

android:ellipsize="end" android:maxLines="1"

<TextView
   android:id="@+id/myTextView"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:ellipsize="end"
   android:maxLines="1"/>

answered Nov 18 '16 at 06:45

PravinCG

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Yeah, it's work in xml layout preview. But isn't work in runtime. Showing [Firstword..._____] Is it may be because I use custom TextView with own ttf typeface? – Anton Stukov Nov 18 '16 at 07:03
textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END); – PravinCG Nov 18 '16 at 11:10
textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END) not work too. Even with default TextView. – Anton Stukov Nov 22 '16 at 06:21

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 18 '16 at 09:06

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if i understand what you want set to textView programmatically this:

textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);

answered Nov 18 '16 at 09:06

John Kalimeris

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TextView hides last word that my be patially visible

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