Question

I have a widget where I need to display some text on one row. If the text does not fit, I would like to show as much as possible and end the text with “…” to show that not all text is displayed. Is there a way to discover how long the displayed text will be before rendering the widget, so that I can replace the last part of the text with “…”?

Cheers,

Answer 1

You don’t need to do that – a TextView can do it for you.

myTextView.setSingleLine(true);
myTextView.setEllipsize(TextView.TruncateAt.END);