Question

This is an odd case that was just recently brought to my attention. I have an activity that displays an AlertDialog when it is created to warn the user that to complete the process they need to reboot. On my device (Galaxy Nexus) it displays just fine. It was just recently brought to my attention that on a lot of other devices its only displaying a few words before being cut off.

        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(ReportActivity.this);
        builder.setTitle("Finished!");
        builder.setMessage("Due to the different storage mediums across the various Android devices this app may eb used for, "
                                            +"I've decided not to force a media rescan because depending on your device, "
                                            +"it may or may not even be possible. "
                                            +"This means that you will need to reboot your device or unmount/mount your sdcard in the Settings app before most players will pull in all the information for the songs."
                                            +"\n Please reboot or rescan before claiming that the app did not work.")
               .setCancelable(false)
               .setPositiveButton("Dismiss", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                   public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                                    dialog.dismiss();
                            lv1.setAdapter(new ResultsAdapter(ReportActivity.this, results));
                   }
               });

            AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
            alert.show();

Answer 1

Rather than use setMessage(), try setView(), supplying your own TextView where you can control the number of lines that are displayed.