Setting Ellipsize on TextView reduces lines shown by one (instead of only ellipsizing last)

Question

when I am using TextView with singleLine="true" and ellipsize="end"(my top TextView), it works well

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Answer 1

Use the following to get a multiline textview with ellipsis on the last line :

android:maxLines="4"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="false"

Replace 4 with the number of lines you want. Hope it helps !

Answer 2

Just use ellipsize combined with scrollHorizontally="true". Simple & clean.

It worked perfectly for me.

Answer 3

This is by far the simplest solution I've found and am currently using in deployment. Let me know if you need any other assistance!

Oh and remember to remove the android:ellipsize tag in your XML since you will be using the bottom code to automatically ellipsize at the end of 3 lines.

TextView snippet;
snippet.setText("loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor loren ipsum dolor ")
ViewTreeObserver vto = this.snippet.getViewTreeObserver();
vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {

    @Override
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        ViewTreeObserver obs = snippet.getViewTreeObserver();
        obs.removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
        if (snippet.getLineCount() > 3) {
            int lineEndIndex = snippet.getLayout().getLineEnd(2);
            String text = snippet.getText().subSequence(0, lineEndIndex - 3) + "...";
            snippet.setText(text);
        }
    }
});

Answer 4

Just set android:maxLines and android:ellipsize.

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_dua"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:maxLines="3"
        android:text="long text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

Answer 5

Try it

tv.setSingleLine(false);
tv.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
int n = 3; // the exact number of lines you want to display
tv.setLines(n);

refer Programmatically create TextView with ellipsis

Answer 6

I tried it out with maxLines and ellipsize on Android 7 & 8.

android:maxLines="3"
android:ellipsize="end"

The preview shows 2 lines and on the third line "...".

But this seems to be a bug in the previewer.

On the device it just works fine, 3 lines with text, at the end of the third line "..."