Android - Expandable TextView with Animation

Question

I have a TextView which firstly shows a small portion of a long text.

The user can press a \"see more\" button to expand the TextView and s

Answer 1

You can do something like this. It will work in any kind of view, whether a normal view, or a view inside ListView or RecyclerView:

In onCreate() or something similar, add:

// initialize integers
int collapsedHeight, expandedHeight;

// get collapsed height after TextView is drawn
textView.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        collapsedHeight = textView.getMeasuredHeight();
    }
});

// view that will expand/collapse your TextView
view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        // number of max lines when collapsed
        if (textView.getMaxLines() == 2) {
            // expand
            textView.setMaxLines(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
            textView.measure(View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(notifMessage.getMeasuredWidth(), View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY), View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED));
            expandedHeight = textView.getMeasuredHeight();
            ObjectAnimator animation = ObjectAnimator.ofInt(textView, "height", collapsedHeight, expandedHeight);
            animation.setDuration(250).start();
        } else {
            // collapse
            ObjectAnimator animation = ObjectAnimator.ofInt(textView, "height", expandedHeight, collapsedHeight);
            animation.addListener(new Animator.AnimatorListener() {
                @Override
                public void onAnimationStart(Animator animator) {

                }

                @Override
                public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animator) {
                    // number of max lines when collapsed
                    textView.setMaxLines(2);
                }

                @Override
                public void onAnimationCancel(Animator animator) {

                }

                @Override
                public void onAnimationRepeat(Animator animator) {

                }
            });
            animation.setDuration(250).start();
        }
    }
});

This will let you expand/collapse a TextView by clicking any view you want. (you can surely choose the TextView itself too)