Get the size of a text in TextView

Question

I have a problem placing a textView at specified center\'s x and y coordinates. Firstly, I tried to set the text in the textView, and to move the view with the width and the

Answer 1

Using the TextView inner Paing class is not so hot when you have multiple lines of text and different paddings. So stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Use getMeasuredHeight and getMeasuredWidth methods after calling measure(UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED). Just don't forget to get the new values inside the post, otherwise mostly you'll get a wrong result.

tv.setText(state.s);
tv.measure(UNSPECIFIED,UNSPECIFIED);
tv.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
       Log.d("tv","Height = "+tv.getMeasuredHeight());
       Log.d("tv","Width  = "+tv.getMeasuredWidth());
    }
});