How to auto-adjust text size on a multi-line TextView according to the view max dimensions?

Question

I\'ve been searching for a way of auto fit a text inside a textview. Through my search I\'ve found many solutions like:

• FontFitTextView
• AutoResizeText

Answer 1

thanks for your solution you are superman! I have implemented your code in derived class of TextView. The code is converted to C# code for Xamarin android. You can easily convert to Java if you need(remove the first constructor for Java).

public class AutoFitTextView : TextView
{
    public AutoFitTextView(System.IntPtr javaReference, Android.Runtime.JniHandleOwnership transfer)
        : base(javaReference, transfer)
    {
    }

    public AutoFitTextView(Context context)
        : base(context)
    {

    }

    public AutoFitTextView(Context context, IAttributeSet attrs)
        : base(context, attrs)
    {

    }


    public void ResizeFontSize()
    {
        int textSize = 50;
        int maxHeight = this.Height;
        while (GetHeightOfMultiLineText(this.Text, textSize, this.Width) > maxHeight)
        {
            textSize--;
        }
        float scaleFactor = Context.Resources.DisplayMetrics.ScaledDensity;
        float additionalFactor = 1.2f;

        TextSize = ((float)(textSize / (additionalFactor * scaleFactor)));
    }


    private int GetHeightOfMultiLineText(string text, int textSize, int maxWidth)
    {
        TextPaint paint = new TextPaint();
        paint.TextSize = textSize;
        int index = 0;
        int lineCount = 0;
        while (index < text.Length)
        {
            index += paint.BreakText(text, index, text.Length, true, maxWidth, null);
            lineCount++;
        }

        Rect bounds = new Rect();
        paint.GetTextBounds("Yy", 0, 2, bounds);
        // obtain space between lines
        double lineSpacing = Math.Max(0, ((lineCount - 1) * bounds.Height() * 0.25));

        return (int)Math.Floor(lineSpacing + lineCount * bounds.Height());
    }

}

Here is AXML code