How to use custom ellipsis in Android TextView

Question

I have a TextView with maxlines=3 and I would like to use my own ellipsis, instead of

\"Lore ipsum ...\"

I need

\"Lore ips         


        

Answer 1

I think the answer from @jmhostalet will degrade the performance (especially when dealing with lists and lots of TextViews) because the TextView draws the text more than once. I've created a custom TextView that solves this in the onMeasure() and therefore only draws the text once.

I've originally posted my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52589927/1680301

And here's the link to the repo: https://github.com/TheCodeYard/EllipsizedTextView