Android TextView text overflow indicator?

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to replace the last three characters of the TextView with "...", but only if the current text overflows the TextView. I have to limit the TextView to 1 line, but sometimes the text is too long, and I would like to show "..." at the end to indicate that the text is longer than shown.

thank

Answer 1

Yes. You can use http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:ellipsize to set the display to "...".

Answer 2

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int MAX_CHARS = 55;  // for example
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.your_text_view_id);
if(tv.getText().toString().length >= MAX_CHARS){
    tv.setText(tv.getText().toString().substring(0,MAX_CHARS) + "...");
}

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