Question

I have custom gallery.
Gallery represents items that are frame layout.
There are one imageView and textView above it.

If text in textView is too long, i need it to be scrolled automatically.
It’s one line of text, and it’s needed to be scrolled horizontally.

I’ve found this snippet of code:

TextView
    android:text="Single-line text view that scrolls automatically"       
    android:singleLine="true" 
    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:marqueeRepeatLimit ="marquee_forever"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>   

It works in my test app with only one text view in it.
But it doesn’t work in my gallery. Noting happens, text just stay still.

Any help?

Answer 1

I’ve tried everything, and finally came up with this. This works for me…hope that this will help you someday. Cheers.

 package com.gui.custom_views;

 import android.content.Context;
 import android.graphics.Paint;
 import android.graphics.Typeface;
 import android.text.TextUtils; 
 import android.util.AttributeSet;
 import android.view.Gravity;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.view.ViewGroup;
 import android.view.animation.Animation;
 import android.view.animation.LinearInterpolator;
 import android.view.animation.TranslateAnimation;
 import android.widget.LinearLayout;
 import android.widget.ScrollView;
 import android.widget.TextView;

 import com.media_player.AndroidMediaPlayerActivity;

 /**
 * Custom Automatic Scrollable Text View
 * 
 * @author Veljko Ilkic
 * 
 */
 public class AutomaticScrollTextView extends LinearLayout {

// Context of application
Context context;
// TextView
private TextView mTextField1;

// Horizontal scroll
private ScrollView mScrollView1;

// Animation on start
private Animation mMoveTextOnStart = null;
// Out animation
private Animation mMoveText1TextOut = null;

// Duration of animation on start
private int durationStart;
// Duration of animation
private int duration;

// Pain for drawing text
private Paint mPaint;

// Text current width
private float mText1TextWidth;

/**
 * Control the speed. The lower this value, the faster it will scroll.
 */
public static final int MS_PER_PX = 80;

/**
 * Control the pause between the animations. Also, after starting this
 * activity.
 */
public static final int PAUSE_BETWEEN_ANIMATIONS = 0;
private boolean mCancelled = false;

// Layout width
private int mWidth;
// Animation thread
private Runnable mAnimation1StartRunnable;

public AutomaticScrollTextView(Context context) {
    super(context);
    init(context);
    this.context = context;
}

public AutomaticScrollTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    init(context);
    this.context = context;
}

private void init(Context context) {
    initView(context);

    // init helper
    mPaint = new Paint();
    mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
    mPaint.setStrokeWidth(1);
    mPaint.setStrokeCap(Paint.Cap.ROUND);

}

@Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b) {
    super.onLayout(changed, l, t, r, b);

    mWidth = getMeasuredWidth();

    // Calculate
    prepare();

    // Setup
    setupText1Marquee();

}

@Override
public void setOnClickListener(OnClickListener l) {
    super.setOnClickListener(l);

    mTextField1.setOnClickListener(l);
}

// Method to finally start the marquee.
public void startMarquee() {
    prepare();
    prepareTextFields();

    startTextField1Animation();

    mCancelled = false;
}

private void startTextField1Animation() {
    mAnimation1StartRunnable = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            mTextField1.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            mTextField1.startAnimation(mMoveTextOnStart);
        }
    };
    postDelayed(mAnimation1StartRunnable, PAUSE_BETWEEN_ANIMATIONS);
}

public void reset() {

    mCancelled = true;

    if (mAnimation1StartRunnable != null) {
        removeCallbacks(mAnimation1StartRunnable);
    }

    mTextField1.clearAnimation();

    prepareTextFields();

    mMoveTextOnStart.reset();
    mMoveText1TextOut.reset();

    mScrollView1.removeView(mTextField1);
    mScrollView1.addView(mTextField1);

    mTextField1.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);

    invalidate();
}

public void prepareTextFields() {
    mTextField1.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
    mTextField1.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    expandTextView(mTextField1);
}

private void setupText1Marquee() {

    // Calculate duration of animations
    durationStart = (int) ((mWidth + mText1TextWidth) * MS_PER_PX);
    duration = (int) (2 * mWidth * MS_PER_PX);

    // On start animation
    mMoveTextOnStart = new TranslateAnimation(0, -mWidth - mText1TextWidth,
            0, 0);

    mMoveTextOnStart.setDuration(durationStart);
    mMoveTextOnStart.setInterpolator(new LinearInterpolator());
    mMoveTextOnStart.setFillAfter(true);

    // Main scrolling animation
    mMoveText1TextOut = new TranslateAnimation(mWidth, -mWidth
            - mText1TextWidth, 0, 0);

    mMoveText1TextOut.setDuration(duration);
    mMoveText1TextOut.setInterpolator(new LinearInterpolator());
    mMoveText1TextOut.setFillAfter(true);
    mMoveText1TextOut.setRepeatCount(Animation.INFINITE);

    // Animation listeners
    mMoveTextOnStart
            .setAnimationListener(new Animation.AnimationListener() {
                public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
                    invalidate();
                    mTextField1.invalidate();

                }

                public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {

                    if (mCancelled) {
                        return;
                    }

                    mTextField1.startAnimation(mMoveText1TextOut);

                }

                public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
                    invalidate();
                    mTextField1.invalidate();
                }
            });

    mMoveText1TextOut
            .setAnimationListener(new Animation.AnimationListener() {
                public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation) {
                    invalidate();
                    mTextField1.invalidate();

                }

                public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation) {

                    if (mCancelled) {
                        return;
                    }

                }

                public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation) {
                    invalidate();
                    mTextField1.invalidate();
                }
            });

}

private void prepare() {

    // Measure
    mPaint.setTextSize(mTextField1.getTextSize());
    mPaint.setTypeface(mTextField1.getTypeface());
    mText1TextWidth = mPaint.measureText(mTextField1.getText().toString());

    setupText1Marquee();

}

private void initView(Context context) {
    setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
    setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
            LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, Gravity.LEFT));
    setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);

    // Scroll View 1
    LayoutParams sv1lp = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
            LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
    sv1lp.gravity = Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL;
    mScrollView1 = new ScrollView(context);

    // Scroll View 1 - Text Field
    mTextField1 = new TextView(context);
    mTextField1.setSingleLine(true);
    mTextField1.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
    mTextField1.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);

    mScrollView1.addView(mTextField1, new ScrollView.LayoutParams(
            mTextField1.getWidth(), LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

    addView(mScrollView1, sv1lp);
}

public void setText1(String text) {

    String temp = "";
    if (text.length() < 10) {
        temp = "         " + text + "         ";
    } else {
        temp = text;
    }
    mTextField1.setText(temp);

}

public void setTextSize1(int textSize) {
    mTextField1.setTextSize(textSize);
}

public void setTextColor1(int textColor) {

    mTextField1.setTextColor(textColor);
}

private void expandTextView(TextView textView) {
    ViewGroup.LayoutParams lp = textView.getLayoutParams();
    lp.width = AndroidMediaPlayerActivity.getScreenWidth();
    textView.setLayoutParams(lp);
}
}