how to make a textview marquee inside a focussed layout in android

Question

I am doing an application in which I have a textview and an image view inside a LinearLayout. Touching the linear layout takes us to another activity. As the text wont fit inside the textview, I want to make the textview content marquee. I have tried may methods but it is not working. The xml content is given below.

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/profile_pic_Layout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="100dip"
    android:layout_margin="10dip"
    android:background="@color/blue_background" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/profile_pic_menu"
        android:layout_width="100dip"
        android:layout_height="100dip"
        android:contentDescription="@string/image"
        android:scaleType="centerCrop" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/profile_name_text"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="30dip"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:marqueeRepeatLimit="1"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:lines="1"
        android:duplicateParentState="true"
        android:scrollHorizontally="true"
        android:fadingEdge="horizontal"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
        android:textSize="20sp">
        <requestFocus android:focusable="true" 
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:duplicateParentState="true"  /> 
    </TextView>
</LinearLayout>

I have also tried setting the textview selected in the code by using,

profileNameTextView.setEllipsize(TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
profileNameTextView.setSelected(true);

I think the it is because, the the parent linearlayout is having the focus. Please help me fix this issue..!

Thank you all in advance..!

See the accepted answer on this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3332924/textview-marquee-not-working — Andy Res, Aug 24 '12 at 13:52
Thanks Andy, I had seen that thread and had tried that too. Later tried other methods. — Aswathy P Krishnan, Aug 24 '12 at 14:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 24 '12 at 13:56

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Apparently you are missing the android:ellipsize="marquee" attribute

Here's a minimalistic working example:

   <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:marqueeRepeatLimit="1"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:ellipsize="marquee"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:text="HELLO HOW ARE YOU WHAT ARE YOU DOING TEST ANDROID IS WRITING TO YOU." />

answered Aug 24 '12 at 13:56

Andy Res

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Sorry!, but I ahd tried that from the xml first. But I moved it to code using profiletextView.setEllipsize(TruncateAt.MARQUEE); while trying out other methods. It was not working out. Any idea what to do when the container layout is having the focus? I tried setting duplicate parentstate also. I found another method in this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4474178/how-to-activate-a-marquee-for-a-textview-inside-a-focused-viewgroup , but I dont want to create a class for that! – Aswathy P Krishnan Aug 24 '12 at 14:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '14 at 04:06

public class TextViewMarquee extends Activity {
private TextView tv;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    tv = (TextView) this.findViewById(R.id.mywidget);  
    tv.setSelected(true);  // Set focus to the textview
}
}

The xml file with the textview:

<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/mywidget"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:lines="1"
    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:fadingEdge="horizontal"
    android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"
    android:textColor="#ff4500"
    android:text="Simple application that shows how to use marquee, with a long text" />

how to make a textview marquee inside a focussed layout in android

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