Android TextView

Question

I have an Android TextView where the view itself is limited to four lines. If the text exceeds this limit I want the end of the view to end with something like .. <-- to notify that there is more text here so you can click and open in fullscreen for example. Not just suddenly stop in the middle of a sentence. Is there a quick fix for this?

Answer 1

Use the android:ellipsize="end" attribute in your layout XML file. It may still stop in the middle of a sentence, but it will have an ellipsis (...) at the end.

Answer 2

Go to the layout file which contains this textview and place following attribute

android:ellipsize="end"

There are 4 options. start, end, middle or marquee. Since you want dots at the end use "end" value