Question

when I am using TextView with singleLine="true" and ellipsize="end"(my top TextView),
it works well

but in another TextView having more then 1 lines (in my case 3 lines in my bottom TextView),
lines="3" and maxLines="3" and ellipsize="end", doesn’t work properly.

When I DON’T put ellipsize="end" in tvDesc, it shows 3 line, which is OK.
Here is code : XML :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imgv"
        android:layout_width="65dp"
        android:layout_height="80dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:src="@drawable/img1"
        android:scaleType="fitXY" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvTitle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imgv"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:text="Title testing line number and ellipsize at end"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:ellipsize="end"    <---  WORKS WELL
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvDesc"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/tvTitle"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imgv"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/imgv"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:textSize="14dp"
        android:lines="3"
        android:maxLines="3"
                       <----------  WITHOUT ellipsize
        
        android:text="I wanna this textview of having 3 lines and ellipsize at END and at this time I am Testing for it. This TextView shows 3 lines WITHOUT ellipsize property, but shows only 2 Lines when ELLIPSIZE property is setted"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

</RelativeLayout>

Above code shows TextView tvDesc with 3 Lines and No-Ellipsize. Here is Image :

But, I wanna ellipsize, so I uses followin code : XML :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imgv"
        android:layout_width="65dp"
        android:layout_height="80dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:src="@drawable/img1"
        android:scaleType="fitXY" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvTitle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imgv"
        android:background="@android:color/white"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:text="Title testing line number and ellipsize at end"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvDesc"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/tvTitle"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imgv"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/imgv"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:textSize="14dp"
        android:lines="3"
        android:maxLines="3"
        android:ellipsize="end"    <------  WITH  ELLIPSIZE
        
        android:text="I wanna this textview of having 3 lines and ellipsize at END and at this time I am Testing for it. This TextView shows 3 lines WITHOUT ellipsize property, but shows only 2 Lines when ELLIPSIZE property is setted"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

</RelativeLayout>

Which shows TextView tvDesc with only 2 lines and Ellipsize,

which is not properly dezired UI, as Followin:

I wanna 3 lines in TextView tvDesc with ellipsize

CAN ANYONE HELP ME.?

Answer 1

This is by far the simplest solution I’ve found and am currently using in deployment. Let me know if you need any other assistance!

Oh and remember to remove the android:ellipsize tag in your XML since you will be using the bottom code to automatically ellipsize at the end of 3 lines.

TextView snippet;
snippet.setText("loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor ")
ViewTreeObserver vto = this.snippet.getViewTreeObserver();
vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {

    @Override
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        ViewTreeObserver obs = snippet.getViewTreeObserver();
        obs.removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
        if (snippet.getLineCount() > 3) {
            int lineEndIndex = snippet.getLayout().getLineEnd(2);
            String text = snippet.getText().subSequence(0, lineEndIndex - 3) + "...";
            snippet.setText(text);
        }
    }
});