draw text “ellipsized” to a canvas

Question

I need to draw text to a canvas (of a custom view), and need to first trim it to a maximum width, adding an ellipsis at the end if necessary. I see you can do it for a Text

Answer 1

Take a look at TextUtils.ellipsize(). I think it's exactly what you want. Basically you just tell it the amount of space available and using the other state information it will create the correct text for you. :)