In Android how to get the width of the Textview which is set to Wrap_Content

Question

I am trying to add a text to the textview for which i have set the width as Wrap_content. I am trying to get the width of this textview. But its showing 0 in all the cases.

Answer 1

When are you calling this? Has it already been drawn to the screen?

It sounds like you are calling getWidth() too early.

You can also take a look at this question.

Answer 2

you can try this:

textView.measure(0,0);
int width = textView.getMeasuredWidth();

Answer 3

You can not get the width of a View with dynamic size before the layout is completely built. That means there is no way you can get it in onCreate(). One way would be to create a class that inherits from TextView and overrides onSizeChanged().

Answer 4

this works for me:

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams mTextViewLayoutParams = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) mTextView.getLayoutParams();
mTextView.setText(R.string.text);
mTextView.measure(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
int width = mShareTip.getMeasuredWidth();
//use the width to do what you want
mShareTip.setLayoutParams(mShareTipLayoutParams);

Answer 5

hello use this method:

textview.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        int width = textview.getWidth();
        int height = textview.getHeight();
        textview.setText( String.valueOf( width +","+ height ));
    }

});

source: https://gist.github.com/omorandi/59e8b06a6e81d4b8364f

Answer 6

Views with the dynamic width/height get their correct size only after a layout process was finished (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#Layout).
You can add OnLayoutChangeListener to your TextView and get it's size there:

tv.addOnLayoutChangeListener(new View.OnLayoutChangeListener() {
           public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right, int bottom, 
                                      int oldLeft, int oldTop, int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
                        final int width = right - left;
                        System.out.println("The width is == " + width);                
    });