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

Using the idea from nunofmendes, I wrote a derived class of TextView that auto resizes text and supports multiple lines.

import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.text.Layout;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.text.TextUtils.TruncateAt;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.TypedValue;

public class AutoResizeTextView extends TextView {

    private Handler measureHandler = new Handler();
    private Runnable requestLayout = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            requestLayout();
        }
    };

    public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public AutoResizeTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(final int widthMeasureSpec,
                             final int heightMeasureSpec) {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);

        final float maxWidth = getWidth();
        final float maxHeight = getHeight();
        if (maxWidth < 1.0f || maxHeight < 1.0f) {
            return;
        }

        int index = 0;
        int lineCount = 0;
        CharSequence text = getText();
        final TextPaint paint = getPaint();
        while (index < text.length()) {
            index += paint.breakText(text, index, text.length(), true, maxWidth, null);
            lineCount++;
        }
        final float height = lineCount * getLineHeight() + (lineCount > 0 ?
                (lineCount - 1) * paint.getFontSpacing() : 0);
        if (height > maxHeight) {
            final float textSize = getTextSize();
            setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, (textSize - 1));
            measureHandler.post(requestLayout);
        }
    }
}