Question

I have a ListView that looks like this:

Notice how the TextView is getting cut off with elipses. How can I make sure the entire TextView is visible inside of the ListView?

Here is my XML for the row (the textview is called bodyTextView):

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:orientation="horizontal"
      android:padding="4px">
      <ImageView android:id="@+id/avatarImageView"
          android:layout_width="48px"
          android:layout_height="48px"/>
      <LinearLayout
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:orientation="vertical"
          android:paddingLeft="4px">
          <LinearLayout
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_weight="1"
             android:gravity="center_vertical">
              <TextView android:id="@+id/usernameTextView"
                  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_weight="1"
                  android:gravity="left"
                 android:textStyle="bold"
                  android:singleLine="true"
                  android:ellipsize="end"
                  android:textColor="#444444"
                  android:padding="0px"/>

              <TextView android:id="@+id/bodyTextView"
                 android:orientation="vertical"
                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:singleLine="false"
                  android:textColor="#666666"
                  android:maxLines="5"
                  android:ellipsize="end"/>
          <TextView android:id="@+id/dateTextView"
                 android:orientation="vertical"
                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:singleLine="true"/>
          </LinearLayout>
      </LinearLayout>
  </LinearLayout>

Answer 1

Set ellipsize=”none”. Also, be sure to specify maxLines big enough.