Android: Last line of textview cut off
AndroidLayoutTextviewLayout InflaterAndroid Problem Overview
I have a horizontal LinearLayout containing a TextView followed by a Spinner next to it. This LinearLayout is dynamically inflated multiple times in a fixed vertical LinearLayout contained within a RelativeLayout.
The problem is that since I switched from Theme.light to Theme.holo.light, the last line of the TextView gets cut in half. This happens when the dynamic text is long and spans more than one row.
I have been able to fix this by adding bottom padding to the horizontal LinearLayout containing the TextView and Spinner.
This does not feel like a fix, but more of a hack. Can someone please give me some advice on how to properly fix this?
I have also read some other questions, but none seem to help.
Horizontal Linear layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
android:text="TextView"/>
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/spinner1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
Relative layout where above layout is dynamically inflated at Linear Layout with id ll2_7:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<ScrollView
android:id="@+id/scrollView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="@+id/relLayoutButtonNext"
android:layout_below="@id/textView1" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingBottom="20dp"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:paddingTop="10dp" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView10"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingRight="30dp"
android:text="2.7" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView11"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="@id/textView10"
android:text="@string/question2_7" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/ll2_7"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView11"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView11"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_marginBottom="20dp">
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
EDIT: Here is the complete layout xml for above:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
style="@style/question_section_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="@string/question2_header" />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/relLayoutButtonNext"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:background="@color/bottomBar"
android:paddingBottom="3dp"
android:paddingLeft="50dp"
android:paddingRight="50dp"
android:paddingTop="3dp" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/buttonNext"
android:layout_width="180dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:onClick="nextStep"
android:text="Next Section"
android:textSize="20sp" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/buttonPrevious"
android:layout_width="180dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:onClick="previousStep"
android:text="Previous Section"
android:textSize="20sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
<ScrollView
android:id="@+id/scrollView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="@+id/relLayoutButtonNext"
android:layout_below="@id/textView1" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingBottom="20dp"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:paddingTop="10dp" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView10"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingRight="30dp"
android:text="2.7" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView11"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="@id/textView10"
android:text="@string/question2_7" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/ll2_7"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView11"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView11"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_marginBottom="20dp">
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView10"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_7"
android:text="2.8" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_7"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView10"
android:text="@string/question2_8" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/ll2_8"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView3"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView3"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView4"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_8"
android:text="2.9" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView5"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_8"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView10"
android:text="@string/question2_9" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/ll2_9"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView5"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView10"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_marginBottom="20dp">
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView6"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView4"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_9"
android:text="2.10" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView7"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_9"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView10"
android:text="@string/question2_10" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/ll2_10"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView7"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView10"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView8"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView6"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_10"
android:text="2.11" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView9"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_10"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView10"
android:text="@string/quesiton2_11" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/ll2_11"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView9"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView9"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_marginBottom="20dp">
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView12"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView8"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_11"
android:text="2.11.1" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView13"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/ll2_11"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView10"
android:text="@string/question2_11_1" android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/ll2_11_1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView13"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textView10"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_marginBottom="20dp">
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
Android Solutions
Solution 1 - Android
After trying a million different things, I think I have the answer.
I applied a LayoutGravity to the TextView item:
android:layout_gravity="fill"
Seems to solve all clipping issues I had. Hope this helps someone with the same problem.
Solution 2 - Android
I've encountered the same cut-off issue as shown at the screenshot. It is caused by the baseline alignment in the horizontal LinearLayout. TextView and Spinner have different baselines due to font size difference. To fix the issue it is needed to disable baseline alignment for the layout by setting:
android:baselineAligned="false"
or in the code:
layout.setBaselineAligned(false);
Solution 3 - Android
I had the same problem, and found that simply adding
android:includeFontPadding="false"
the final line of text no longer had its descenders clipped.
Solution 4 - Android
I added some dummy space after text by adding
textView.setText(firstString+"\n");
I tried all other solution.But this was the only solution worked for me
Solution 5 - Android
I found a different solution by extending TextView and adding a custom Class like this:
public class AdaptingTextView extends TextView {
public AdaptingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
public AdaptingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public AdaptingTextView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
// set fitting lines to prevent cut text
int fittingLines = h / this.getLineHeight();
if (fittingLines > 0) {
this.setLines(fittingLines);
}
}
}
Solution 6 - Android
Put the problematic textview inside a framelayout. I think the text view is not calculated correctly because of the sibling view, Spinner.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
android:text="TextView"/>
</FrameLayout>
<Spinner
android:id="@+id/spinner1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
Solution 7 - Android
When this occurs, you should ensure that the TextView is not growing larger than it's container -
If a TextView is set to wrap_content and it's container (or an ancestor container) doesn't leave room for the TextView to grow into it can be occluded.
If that's not the case, it's also possible the onMeasure() of the TextView sometimes doesn't correctly measure the tails of letters, non-latin characters or the effects from text being italic. You can correct for this by setting a global style for your TextView so it will be picked up without needed to change your entire code base:
Ensure that you're application/activities use a custom theme like so:
<style name="Custom" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">
<item name="android:textViewStyle">@style/Custom.Widget.TextView</item>
</style>
<style name="Custom.Widget.TextView" parent="@android:style/Widget.TextView">
<item name="android:gravity">fill</item>
<item name="android:padding">1sp</item>
</style>
The answer by @Rynadt was really helpful in getting to the above stage. Setting the gravity of the Text inside the View ensures on some devices that occlusion never takes place (The text is correctly fitted inside the view), on others a helping hand with padding of an sp value, ensures that the tails et al are accounted for with a TextSize specific value.
Solution 8 - Android
My solution was close to the accepted one, but I had to change it to
android:layout_gravity="fill_vertical"
instead. Otherwise the other rows would have been stretch as well with added line breaks at random places. For example, the biggest row had 4 lines, so another row was changed from
this is a testphrase
to
thi
s is
a testph
rase
Solution 9 - Android
try with removing android:paddingBottom="20dp"
from
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingBottom="20dp"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:paddingTop="10dp" >
Solution 10 - Android
getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener does not work in a recycler view. If you're using a recycler, use View.addOnLayoutChangeListener:
I found that the ellipsizing I defined for textView in xml was not always reflected so I programmatically set it before reassigning the text property. This worked for me.
textView.addOnLayoutChangeListener(new OnLayoutChangeListener() {
@Override
public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right, int bottom,
int oldLeft, int oldTop, int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
textView.removeOnLayoutChangeListener(this);
float lineHeight = textView.getLineHeight();
int maxLines = (int) (textView.getHeight() / lineHeight);
if (textView.getLineCount() != maxLines) {
textView.setLines(maxLines);
textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
// Re-assign text to ensure ellipsize is performed correctly.
textView.setText(model.getText());
}
}
});
Solution 11 - Android
If you have this problem and your TextView is inside a RelativeLayout, try switching the RelativeLayout for a LinearLayout.
That fixed the problem for me
Solution 12 - Android
You can use a global layout listener for a TextView in any type of ViewGroup.
final TextView dSTextView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.annoyingTextView);
dSTextView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
@Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
dSTextView.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
float lineHeight = dSTextView.getLineHeight();
int maxLines = (int) (dSTextView.getHeight() / lineHeight);
if (dSTextView.getLineCount() != maxLines) {
dSTextView.setLines(maxLines);
}
}
});
You can read more about it here
Solution 13 - Android
I know it's so late, but this is work like charm for me.
add this code to your textview
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:layout_weight="1"
Solution 14 - Android
I have this same problem, and its very annoying.
It only happens with Arabic text.
If you make the label multi-line and adding a \n at the end of your string, it would fix it, but the problem is that there would be a big gap between this label and the object below it, due to the fact that this field now has a new empty line below it.
A custom control can be done to get around that. But overall, this is an annoying bug.
Solution 15 - Android
I think there is very little you can do to get this working by altering the layouts. As I have found that some methods work only in some cases. I think it depends on the entire layout hierarchy and is not a one-size-fits-all solution. I have also noticed that it happens especially when you have a different font that you want to set to the TextView.
A sure shot method that I have experimented and tested is that you can set the font attributes in code after the view is inflated. I am assuming that you have a font in the assets/fonts folder that you want to you.
For eg in a Fragment:
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_view, container, false);
TextView tv = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.text_view);
tv.setText("Insert text that needs to be displayed");
AssetManager assetManager = getContext().getAssets();
Typeface typeFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(assetManager, "Fonts/OpenSans-Light.ttf");
tv.setTypeface(typeFace , 0); // 0 is normal font
tv.setPadding(10, 0, 10, 0); // This is not mandatory
}
And in an Activity:
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(Resource.Layout.main_activity);
TextView tv = (TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.text_view);
tv.setText("Insert text that needs to be displayed");
AssetManager assetManager = getContext().getAssets();
Typeface typeFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(assetManager, "Fonts/OpenSans-Light.ttf");
tv.setTypeface(typeFace , 0); // 0 is normal font
tv.setPadding(10, 0, 10, 0); // This is not mandatory
}
Solution 16 - Android
Best workaround for this is to add a dummy View of desired height (i.e. this will add padding itself) at the bottom of your view.
<TableRow
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp" >
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="30dp"/>
</TableRow>
Like in my case I added one more table row at the bottom of the view. Hope this could help someone.
Solution 17 - Android
Add padding to the bottom of the text view:
android:paddingBottom="24dp"
Solution 18 - Android
I had the same problem and found a handy solution. I get the number of lines of the TextView after rendering and set the height according to the number of lines. Here is the code.
TextView textView = (TextView) layout.findViewById(R.id.textView);
textView.setText(this.text);
textView.post(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
int linesCount = textView.getLineCount();
textView.setLines(linesCount);
}
});
Solution 19 - Android
For me, this solution worked like a charm.
The height and width of my outermost layout was set dynamically, so the TextView contained within got it's text cut even if I set android:maxLines in my xml (for different devices it was behaving differently).
After trying out different methods, finally I got a solution that fixed my issue.
Textview:
public class CustomTextView extends androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatTextView {
public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public CustomTextView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
// set fitting lines to prevent cut text
int fittingLines = h / this.getLineHeight();
if (fittingLines > 0) {
this.setLines(fittingLines);
this.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
}
}
}
xml:
<com.myproject.android.customviews.CustomTextView
android:id="@+id/tv_partner_description"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="top"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="@dimen/text_small_medium" />
Solution 20 - Android
create theme as for particular language like style-ar which cut-off textview:
<style name="EnnodaCustomTextView" parent="Widget.AppCompat.TextView">
<item name="android:paddingTop">1dp</item>
<item name="android:paddingBottom">1dp</item>
</style>
Apply it in you AppTheme to reflect in overall app for padding bottom, as :
<item name="android:textViewStyle">@style/EnnodaCustomTextView</item>
Note : create same style name in default styles.xml with no item tags for padding..(where no need of extra padding )
Solution 21 - Android
I finally fixed it!
I try to add String to the TextView in Service and then call scrollTo(), the last line be cut off!
The scrollTo() should be call in "Runnable", like:
private ScrollView mScrollView;
public void scrollToBottom()
{
mScrollView = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.debug_textview_scrollview);
mScrollView.post(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
mScrollView.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_DOWN);
}
});
}
I think it because in the monent of call scrollTo() in service, the update of TextView is not ready.