How to find android TextView number of characters per line?

Question

So I have a TextView in android that has the width of the whole length of the screen and a padding of dip 5. How can I calculate the number of characters that will fit a si

Answer 1

Try this:

private boolean isTooLarge (TextView text, String newText) {
    float textWidth = text.getPaint().measureText(newText);
    return (textWidth >= text.getMeasuredWidth ());
}

Detecting how many characters fit will be impossible due to the variable width of the characters. The above function will test if a particular string will fit or not in the TextView. The content of newText should be all the characters in a particular line. If true, then start a new line (and using a new string to pass as parameter).

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Answer to the comment:

1. because the app can be run in many systems is exactly why you need to measure it.
2. This is a way to solve your "overall question". What is the difference between using str.size()>numCol vs is too large? You will need to implement your animation (hint #1: insert a newline character)
3. as I said before when you start a new line, you start a new string (hint #2: if you extend TextView, you can implement all this in overriding setText). (hint #3: Keep track of the lines created with a static int lines; and use newString.split("\\r?\\n")[lines-1] to check for length).