Android: Something better than android:ellipsize=“end” to add “…” to truncated long Strings?

Question

This property makes

\"short and very-long-word\"

to

\"short and\"

. But I want to

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and setting this property to the TextView helped:

android:singleLine="true"

Also, I was using a RelativeLayout so I limited the space the TextView could take by setting a left margin to a button to the right of the TextView, so that the text cannot expand further and is forced to truncate its content.

Maybe it's not the solution to your problem, but it helped me in a similar situation.