Android Multiline Snackbar

Question

I'm trying to leverage new Snackbar from Android Design Support Library to display multiline snackbar, as shown in http://www.google.com/design/spec/components/snackbars-toasts.html#snackbars-toasts-specs:

import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar;

final String snack = "First line\nSecond line\nThird line";
Snackbar.make(mView, snack, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();

It displays only First line... on my Nexus 7. How to make it display all lines?

PS: I tried Toast and it displayed all lines.

Answer 1

Just set the maxLines attribute of Snackbars Textview

View snackbarView = snackbar.getView();
TextView textView = (TextView) snackbarView.findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
textView.setMaxLines(5);  // show multiple line

If you're using the more recent "com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0"dependency, then you will use this: com.google.android.material.R.id.snackbar_text to access the Snackbar's TextView.

You can use even R.id.snackbar_text as well. it's work for me.

Answer 2

One can override the predefined value used for that in values.xml of the app

<integer name="design_snackbar_text_max_lines">5</integer>

This value is used by Snackbar by default.

Answer 3

With the Material Components Library you can define it using with the snackbarTextViewStyle attribute in the app theme:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.*">
  ...
  <item name="snackbarTextViewStyle">@style/snackbar_text</item>
</style>

<style name="snackbar_text" parent="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Snackbar.TextView">
    ...
    <item name="android:maxLines">5</item>
</style>

Note: it requires the version 1.2.0 of the library.

Answer 4

Snackbar snackbar =  Snackbar.make(view, "Text",Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).setDuration(Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
View snackbarView = snackbar.getView();
TextView tv= (TextView) snackbarView.findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
tv.setMaxLines(3); 
snackbar.show();