How do I tell if my textview has been ellipsized?

Question

I have a multi-line TextView that has android:ellipsize=\"end\" set. I would like to know, however, if the string I place in there is actually too

Answer 1

textView.getLayout is the way to go but the problem with that is that it returns null if layout is not prepared. Use the below solution.

 ViewTreeObserver vto = textview.getViewTreeObserver();
    vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
           Layout l = textview.getLayout();
           if ( l != null){
              int lines = l.getLineCount();
              if ( lines > 0)
                  if ( l.getEllipsisCount(lines-1) > 0)
                    Log.d(TAG, "Text is ellipsized");
           }  
        }
    });

Code snippet for removing the listener (source):

mLayout.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        scrollToGridPos(getCenterPoint(), false);
        mLayout.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);        
    }
});