Question

I have a lsit view and i that i need to add some text.
in the adapter, I need to append … at the end and i used the following
when i give

android:ellipsize="end"

in the only shows 2 line
eg:
asdnfsdfdsf asdfsdfasdf
sdfsd sdfsdf sdfsd ad…

And when i give

android:ellipsize="start"

it is as :
asdnfsdfdsf asdfsdfasdfd
…sdfsd sdfsdf sdfsd ad

The complete code i used:

<TextView  android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:background="#016A7D"

   android:layout_height="80dp" android:textColor="#000000"

    android:maxLines="4"          

    android:id="@+id/list_report_desciption" 

    android:ellipsize="end"

/>
And the output i got is:

What exactly will a smarter planet
look like? How’s IT changing? A…

actually it contains more than 6 lines
Is there any thing i need to set so that i need to get 3 lines
Thanks

Answer 1

Nothing worked for me:-(
I just fixed the length. Cut the string in that length and append ‘…’ after that.
Now its working for me.