Question

I have tableview, where create new rows and set them layout manually. In every row there are 3 main elements: image, textview for title and textview for description. To move them where I want, I use two linear layouts. I want textview for description (named as descView) show text in two lines, but instead – it shows only one. What did I do wrong or what method to call, so view shows text in two lines. Would be perfect if it wraps text by word (not char).

Screenshot of what I have now:

Code of creating new row (‘New’ is Object where I save information (text, image, etc.)):

private TableRow formRow(New item) {

    //prepare table row parameters
    TableRow tr = new TableRow(this);
    tr.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.results_table_row);
    tr.setVerticalGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
    tr.setTag(item.getTitle());
    tr.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
                v.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.results_table_row);

            } else if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
                v.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.results_table_row_touched);
            }
            return true;
        }
    });


    //create main layout for content
    LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(this);
    layout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);

    //add image
    int imageID = Integer.parseInt(item.getPictureSrc());
    ImageView image = new ImageView(this);
    image.setImageResource(imageID);
    image.setPadding(5, 5, 5, 5);
    layout.addView(image);

    //add another layout for title and description
    LinearLayout descLayout = new LinearLayout(this);
    descLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
    descLayout.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); 

    //add title
    TextView titleView = new TextView(this);
    titleView.setText(item.getTitle());
    titleView.setPadding(5, 0, 0, 0);
    titleView.setTextAppearance(this, R.style.TableRowStyle_ChildTitle);
    titleView.setLines(1);
    descLayout.addView(titleView);

    //add description
    TextView descView = new TextView(this);
    descView.setText(item.getDescription());
    descView.setPadding(5, 0, 0, 0);
    descView.setTextAppearance(this, R.style.TableRowStyle_ChildText);
    descView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE);
    descView.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); 
    //descView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
    descView.setLines(2);
    descLayout.addView(descView);

    //add description layout to main layout
    layout.addView(descLayout);

    //finally, add layout to row
    tr.addView(layout);

    return tr;
}

Answer 1

I set max lines to some number and set characters length by calculating character to first dot. So now application know how much information to show and no such bug appear