Android ellipsize does not work properly

Question

I'm building a new InfoWindow (google maps api v2) and I'm trying to get my layout to be perfect. A part of that layout is this:

  <LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
  android:id="@+id/txtInfoWindowName"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
  android:ellipsize="end"
  android:singleLine="true"
  android:textColor="#ff000000"
  android:textSize="14dp"
  android:textStyle="bold"/>
<TextView
  android:id="@+id/txtInfoWindowObstacles"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:ellipsize="end"
  android:maxLength="32"
  android:lines="1"
  android:singleLine="true"
  android:textColor="#ff7f7f7f"
  android:textSize="14dp"/>

Now, the problem is with the android:ellipsize="end". It should draw the three dots at the end but it doesn't do that. Now I'm getting something like this:

TextTextTextTextTe

Instead of this:

TextTextTextTextTe...

I'm thinking it has something to do with the fact that I'm using layout_width="wrap_content" . But I need that because I'm using a LinearLayout

Answer 1

I tried your code and they work fine, except the second TextView which has the attribute android:maxLength="32", which in this case the text cannot be ellipsized because of 32 characters limit. But if you remove it, it works as expected.

Answer 2

There is another option - you can format your string from code like this:

private static final int STR_MAX_CHAR_COUNT = 32;

private String formatString(String stringToFormat) {
    if(stringToFormat.length() > STR_MAX_CHAR_COUNT){
        stringToFormat = stringToFormat.substring(0, STR_MAX_CHAR_COUNT - 1) + "...";
    }
    return stringToFormat;
}

And then just set string like this:

String newText = "some long-long text";
mTextView.setText(formatString(newText))