Strange issue with android:ellipsize=“end”

Question

I am using android:ellipsize=\"end\" in android xml file, & surprisingly I am not getting the layout that I want, the 3 dots(...) are showing but after that

Answer 1

I was experiencing the same problem when displaying a String containing html formatted text.

Removing all html tags with myText.replaceAll("\\<.*?>","") solved the problem.

You can also remove html tags using Html.fromHtml(myText).toString(), but notice that you must use .toString() and not apply the fromHtml output directly to the TextView. If some special characters are html encoded (&, >, <...) you can safely apply again Html.fromHtml() to the final String.