How to wrap text in textview in Android

Question

Does any one know how to wrap text in TextView in Android platform. i.e if the text in textview exceed the screen length it should be displayed in the second line.

I have searched and tried the following:

android:scrollHorizontally="false", android:inputType="textMultiLine", android:singleLine="false" 

But none work..

Can anyone suggest how can I do it.

Answer 1

Constraint Layout

<TextView android:id="@+id/some_textview" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content"  app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@id/textview_above" app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@id/button_to_right"/> 

• Ensure your layout width is zero
• left / right constraints are defined
• layout height of wrap_content allows expansion up/down.
• Set android:maxLines="2" to prevent vertical expansion (2 is just an e.g.)
• Ellipses are prob. a good idea with max lines android:ellipsize="end"

---

0dp width allows left/right constraints to determine how wide your widget is.

Setting left/right constraints sets the actual width of your widget, within which your text will wrap.

Constraint Layout docs

Answer 2

For me this issue only occurred on Android < 4.0

The combination of parameters I used were:

android:layout_weight="1" android:ellipsize="none" android:maxLines="100" android:scrollHorizontally="false" 

The maxLines count seemed to be the random final piece that made my TextView wrap.