Android, How to limit width of TextView (and add three dots at the end of text)?

Question

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"/> 

Answer 1

Deprecated:

Add one more property android:singleLine="true" in your Textview

Updated:

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

Answer 2

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.