`singleLine` is/was used in xml layout files for `TextView` and `EditText` something like the following:

    &lt;TextView
        android:layout_width=&quot;wrap_content&quot;
        android:layout_height=&quot;wrap_content&quot;
        android:singleLine=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;

[Some people][1] on SO say `singleLine` is deprecated, while [other people][2] still suggest using it. Sometimes it even seems necessary to use when `maxLines=&quot;1&quot;` doesn&#39;t work. (see [here][3], [here][4], and [here][5])

The docs should be the place to go to answer this question, right? [Here, they say:][6]

&gt; **This constant was deprecated in API level 3.** 

&gt; This attribute is
deprecated. Use `maxLines` instead to change the layout of a static
text, and use the `textMultiLine` flag in the inputType attribute
instead for editable text views (if both singleLine and inputType are
supplied, the inputType flags will override the value of singleLine).

However, [in the TextView docs][7], there is no indication that it is deprecated, either for [`android:singleLine`][8] or for [`setSingleLine`][9] or for [`setTransformationMethod`][10]. The same TextView docs, by comparison, do state that other things like `STATUS_BAR_HIDDEN` and `fitSystemWindows` are deprecated. So is the `singleLine` deprecation an omission, was it &quot;undeprecated&quot;, or what? 

This question has been [previously asked before][11] but was not the main focus of the question (and was not answered).


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16381219/3681880
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24970871/3681880
  [3]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30029722/3681880
  [4]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17125324/3681880
  [5]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24351698/textviews-ellipsize-not-working-on-maxlines-1
  [6]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html#singleLine
  [7]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html
  [8]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:singleLine
  [9]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setSingleLine%28%29
  [10]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#setTransformationMethod%28android.text.method.TransformationMethod%29
  [11]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7026121/androidsingleline-of-textview-is-nolonger-in-the-deprecated

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Is the xml attribute singleLine deprecated or not in Android?