How to disable the TextView maxLines programmatically?

Question

I\'m having a hard time reseting the maxLines attribute of a TextView programmatically.

Just tried setting to 0 and it doesn\'t wo

Answer 1

As there isn't yet an approved answer - the proper way to reset the maxlines property of the TextView is:

textView.setMaxLines(Integer.MAX_VALUE);

As per Valdemar's comment and this stackoverflow answer. Using -1 will cause an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.

Keep in mind only END and MARQEE setEllipsize() settings will be respected for maxlines >= 2 according to the documentation:

If setMaxLines(int) has been used to set two or more lines, END and MARQUEE* are only supported (other ellipsizing types will not do anything).