Android Textview ellipses with multiple lines

Question

I am trying to get an ellipse at the end of a text box having multiple lines of text. "..." shows, but in the last place in the text, and the other - other characters. How can I make sure that "..." is always at the end.

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XML Layout File:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_marginRight="5dp" android:orientation="horizontal" > <TextView android:id="@+id/nfDateMonth" android:layout_width="64dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="10dp" android:layout_marginRight="8dp" android:layout_marginTop="2dp" android:background="@drawable/topsegment" android:gravity="center" android:text="APR" android:textAllCaps="true" android:textColor="#f2e606" android:textSize="22sp" android:textStyle="bold" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/nfDateDate" android:layout_width="64dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="@+id/nfDateMonth" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp" android:layout_marginLeft="10dp" android:layout_marginRight="8dp" android:background="@drawable/bottomsegment" android:gravity="center" android:text="28" android:textSize="22sp" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/nfTitle" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginBottom="2dp" android:layout_marginTop="0dp" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/nfDateMonth" android:text="Half Marathon" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" android:textSize="16sp" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/nfContent" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="@+id/nfTitle" android:layout_gravity="left" android:layout_marginBottom="2dp" android:layout_marginRight="16dp" android:layout_marginTop="2dp" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/nfDateDate" android:ellipsize="end" android:maxLines="2" android:text="Content\nline two line three sadsa dsd dsa dsd big big big sd sad sad sadsadsad asd sad as d asd as das das das das da sd asd asd one two three four five sixx seven" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" android:textSize="12sp" /> </RelativeLayout> 

Answer 1

I had the same problem today. This is probably a bug in TextView or TextUtils (ellipsize method). In my case, this is caused by text with new lines.

There are two solutions:

• Get only the first line:

 String longText = "..."; String body = new Scanner(longText).nextLine(); textView.setText(body); 

2. Delete all new lines in the text

 String longText = "..."; String body = longText.replace("\n", "").replace("\r", ""); textView.setText(body);