Android TextView has height and width of 0

Question

I have a small project where I want to reuse a certain UI component a few time so I created a widget by expanding a ViewGroup. In that ViewGroup I inflated a view that conta

Answer 1

Remember:getHeight() and getWidth()return 0 if components are not drawn yet.

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To find the width And height of a View before it being drawn:

1. First call measure

   view.measure(MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED,MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED)
   

2. Now you can get width using getMeasuredWidth and height using getMeasuredHeight

   int width = view.getMeasuredWidth();
   int height = view.getMeasuredHeight();
   

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I have posted some more ideas here: How to get width/height of a View