Why setting text from onMeasure does not affect TextView?

Question

There is a TextView of a certain size and whenever text set to it is too long I\'d like to re-set it to some preset value.

To accomplish this I am overr

Answer 1

In your onMeasure(int,int)

1. CALL super(int,int)
2. Use getMeasuredWidth() and getMeasuredHeight

something like this:

void onMeasure(int a, int b){
    super(a,b);
    if(getMeasuredWidth()>bla)
        setText("default");
}