Auto Scale TextView Text to Fit within Bounds

Question

I\'m looking for an optimal way to resize wrapping text in a TextView so that it will fit within its getHeight and getWidth bounds. I\'m not simply looking for

Answer 1

I hope this helps you

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;

/* Based on 
 * from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2617266/how-to-adjust-text-font-size-to-fit-textview
 */
public class FontFitTextView extends TextView {

private static float MAX_TEXT_SIZE = 20;

public FontFitTextView(Context context) {
    this(context, null);
}

public FontFitTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);

    float size = this.getTextSize();
    if (size > MAX_TEXT_SIZE)
        setTextSize(MAX_TEXT_SIZE);
}

private void refitText(String text, int textWidth) {
    if (textWidth > 0) {
        float availableWidth = textWidth - this.getPaddingLeft()
                - this.getPaddingRight();

        TextPaint tp = getPaint();
        Rect rect = new Rect();
        tp.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), rect);
        float size = rect.width();

        if (size > availableWidth)
            setTextScaleX(availableWidth / size);
    }
}

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    int parentWidth = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
    int parentHeight = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
    refitText(this.getText().toString(), parentWidth);
    this.setMeasuredDimension(parentWidth, parentHeight);
}

@Override
protected void onTextChanged(final CharSequence text, final int start,
        final int before, final int after) {
    refitText(text.toString(), this.getWidth());
}

@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
    if (w != oldw) {
        refitText(this.getText().toString(), w);
    }
}
}

NOTE: I use MAX_TEXT_SIZE in case of text size is bigger than 20 because I don't want to allow big fonts applies to my View, if this is not your case, you can just simply remove it.