TextView - detect if String exceeds available space

Question

Here is my layout

         RelativeLayout
             ImageView  iv1
             TextView  
                   toTheRightOf iv1
                   toTheEndOf           


        

Answer 1

It may be helpful. I did something like that, and in my solution I am scaling down textView, but you can set shorter text.

    if(textView.getWidth() > 0) {
        float widthOfTheText = textView.getPaint().measureText(textView.getText());
        if(widthOfTheText > textView.getWidth()) {
            //exceeds, let scale it
            textView.setTextScaleX((textView.getWidth()-0.1f)/widthOfTheText);
        } else {
            //not exceeds
        }
    } else {
        //not layouted yet
        textView.addOnLayoutChangeListener(new View.OnLayoutChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right, int bottom, int oldLeft, int oldTop, int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
              TextView tv = (TextView) v;
              float widthOfTheText = tv.getPaint().measureText(tv.getText());
              tv.setTextScaleX((tv.getWidth()-0.1f)/widthOfTheText);
              tv.removeOnLayoutChangeListener(this);

              if(widthOfTheText > tv.getWidth()) {
                 //exceeds, let scale it
                 tv.setTextScaleX((textView.getWidth()-0.1f)/widthOfTheText);
              } else {
                 //not exceeds
              }
           }
       });
    }

Answer 2

Try this solution:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/image1"
        android:src="@android:drawable/ic_dialog_email"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="dsajkhfkjhfasa fbsa fas fahj afs fsa afs sf afs sda da das dsals"
        android:ellipsize="middle"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/image2"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/image1" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/image2"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:src="@android:drawable/ic_dialog_email"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</RelativeLayout>

In this layout, textview would ellipsize itself whenever the length would be greater than the available space.