Why is Android truncating my text?

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I am writing an Android application that pulls data from a remote database using PHP. I have PHP code written to download the entire contents of a table to the app. If I view the PHP in a browser, all of the data is displayed in text form. However, when I view it in the app, the text is truncated.

Here is the code for the TextView that the data is being fed into:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:scrollbars = "vertical"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />

Any other code will be provided on request, I'm just not sure what else is relevant to this.

Here's a screenshot of how it looks in the browser: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8062829/Screen%20Shot%202014-04-08%20at%202.46.01%20PM.png

And here's a screenshot of how it looks on my device: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8062829/Screenshot_2014-04-08-14-37-09.png

When you logged the results of your HTTP operation to a file, and examined the file, to determine if you successfully downloaded all of the data in Android, what did you learn? — CommonsWare, Apr 08 '14 at 12:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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Athough you haven't provided any code that shows how you retrieve your data I am certain that your problem is with httpclient. You probably aren't reading the entire stream. Checkout an example here

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Apr 08 '14 at 12:38

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Well, you were close. While I was looking through my code to see what could be wrong with httpclient, I noticed that I had limited the stream to 500 characters in my downloadUrl method. – Punxsutawney Phyllis Apr 08 '14 at 12:44

Why is Android truncating my text?

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