How to wrap preference title?

Question

In this picture, the title of my Preference does not wrap around its parent.

How can I make the title wrap to a new line?

Thanks.

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xml:

<CheckBoxPreference
        android:key="keypref"
        android:summary="Summary text does wrap around the borders"
        android:title="The title of this preference is" >
</CheckBoxPreference>

If the length of `title` getting very long means and when its getting focus means, it'll run through like in `marquee`style na. Did you see that one? — Praveenkumar, Apr 27 '12 at 12:07
@mobile:: please check out this http://stackoverflow.com/a/3612019/1021695 — KMI, Apr 27 '12 at 12:29
@SpK I don't understand your comment, can you elaborate a little more? — MobileCushion, May 02 '12 at 09:44
Would be nice if marquee automatically/magically just work as Praveen said.. but it doesn't.. — Ewoks, Apr 10 '14 at 15:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 01 '15 at 10:06

You would need to make custom layout which resembles default (android internal) CheckBoxPreference. In that xml text view of title should be with ellipsize set to Marque, repeat limit indefinite and scrollable set to horizontal. Than you can set layout of CheckBoxPreference with:

<CheckBoxPreference
    android:key="key_checkbox_pref"
    android:summary="Summary text does wrap around the borders"
    android:title="The title of this preference."
    android:layout="@layout/custom_checkbox_preferences_layout">

Hope that would work ;)

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 26 '12 at 21:53

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Just an update to this. It's a String so you can use \n to create a newline.

<CheckBoxPreference
        android:key="keypref"
        android:summary="Summary text does wrap around the borders"
        android:title="The title of this preference\nis this." >
</CheckBoxPreference>

edited Nov 26 '12 at 21:53

Aleksander Blomskøld

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answered Nov 26 '12 at 21:28

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This wouldn't work very well on different screen resolutions. – Philio Dec 19 '12 at 10:51
this doesn't work if you use `android:title="@string/some_string"` where you put into a strings.xml `the string I want \n to wrap`. Here the `\n` is ignored. – dentex Oct 23 '13 at 14:36
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Correction: a `\n` is always ignored. see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19616238/how-to-wrap-a-preference-title-really – dentex Oct 27 '13 at 10:18

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