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

I had the same issue and I calculated the number characters per line by 2 steps: Step 1: Calculate the number of lines

 val widthOfTvComment = widthOfScreen - marginLeft - marginRight
 var bounds  = Rect()
 var paint = Paint()
 paint.textSize = textSize
 paint.getTextBounds(comment,0,comment.length,bounds)

val lines = ( bounds.width()/widthOfTvComment)

Step 2: Calculated the number characters per line

val charactersPerLine = comment.length / lines