How to end TextView with 3 dots by using maxLength

I have a TextView in my layout which is wrap_content in layout_width. It is limited to maximum of 15 characters so I'm using maxLength.

I need to end this TextView with 3 dots (...) and it happens only when I give the layout_width a fixed size in dp, something that I don't want to do.

I know it is possible programmatically by trimming the string after the 15th character and then adding the 3 dots, but I prefer to do that by XML.

Any idea how to end the text with 3 dots and leave it wrap_content?

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/inbox_contactName"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:lines="1"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:ellipsize="end"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:maxLength="15"
    android:textColor="#0670b4"
    android:textSize="16sp" />

This will solve your problem, Use ellipsize Property in your XML Code

android:ellipsize="end" <!-- This makes the magic ... thing -->
android:maxEms="15" <!-- Limit of the Text -->
android:singleLine="true" <!-- In case if you want everything in one line -->

Edit: singleLine is deprecated. Use maxlines="1" instead.

You cannot use both maxLength and Ellipsize although you can define Maximum EMS see the example below

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_hist_source_lang"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:maxEms="8"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="TextView"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

I gather (from comment) that @Yaniv already solved it using code - but this is the right way to do it (with xml). May help other users who land here. Trick is to use both toleftof and torightof.

<RelativeLayout>
...
 <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@id/some_element1"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/some_element2"/>
...
<RelativeLayout>

You can use

android:maxWidth="100dp"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"

Only this works for me.

use this android:ellipsize="end"

One of the easiest way is to add Right Padding + Ellipsize

<TextView
            android:id="@+id/txtvw_contentcell_subhead"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Polem sampler, Lorem Ipsum golep tolem burop yemit noski"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:textColor="@color/caption_black_color"
            android:textSize="@dimen/caption_size"
            android:paddingRight="40dp"/>

Here is an example Subtitle Text with char limit.

Tried most of the solutions above. Using maxWidth was the key for me:

android:maxWidth="100dp"
android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"

Very Important: ellipsize = "end" only works when maxLength is set to a value that is more than the number of characters on one line. You can use wrap_content if you align the TextView's end and start to any other view(s).

I needed to do this with Radio Button and I wanted to limit the size to one line. When I used Android:singleline="true", radio button's check circle disappeared. Here's the code that finally worked:

android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"

There's no need to set ems. This will probably work also in TextView and other UI components. Hope this helps to someone.

You can just modify the String when it's length is above 20 to add the ellipsize.

remove the line from xml

android:lines="1"
        android:maxLines="1"