How to set maxLines and ellipsize of a TextView at the same time

Question

I want to limit my text view to have maximum of 5 lines, so I did:

<TextView     android:id="@+id/text"     android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"       android:maxLines="5" /> 

But when I try to configure it to add '...' when the text is truncated, I add android:ellipsize="end". I do see the ... but then my TextView only has a max line of 2, instead of 5.

Can you please suggest how can I make the text view of maximum line of 5 and add '...' when it get truncated?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Progrmatically, you can use:

your_text_view.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END); your_text_view.setMaxLines(4); your_text_view.setText("text");   

Answer 2

try this code...

    final TextView tv_yourtext = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text);      tv_yourtext.setText("A really long text");     ViewTreeObserver vto = tv_yourtext.getViewTreeObserver();     vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {          @Override         public void onGlobalLayout() {             ViewTreeObserver obs = tv_yourtext.getViewTreeObserver();             obs.removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);             if(tv_yourtext.getLineCount() > 6){                 Log.d("","Line["+tv_yourtext.getLineCount()+"]"+tv_yourtext.getText());                 int lineEndIndex = tv_yourtext.getLayout().getLineEnd(5);                 String text = tv_yourtext.getText().subSequence(0, lineEndIndex-3)+"...";                 tv_yourtext.setText(text);                 Log.d("","NewText:"+text);             }          }     });