How to find the Text Area(Height/Width) of TextView programmatically in android

Question

I have an EditText, a Button and a TextView. On clicking the button, textview shows the text written in edittext. Is it possible to find the size of textview occupied depending upon text. i.e. If It has three characters "abc", what is width now, if it has 5 characters like "abcde" , then what is the width ?

score 80 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '14 at 06:24

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Rect bounds = new Rect();
Paint textPaint = textView.getPaint();
textPaint.getTextBounds(text,0,text.length(),bounds);
int height = bounds.height();
int width = bounds.width();

or

textView.setText("bla");
textView.measure(0, 0);
textView.getMeasuredWidth();
textView.getMeasuredHeight();

answered Jun 23 '14 at 06:24

pigeongram

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This works quite nicely - until the text is too long to fit into one line and wraps, adding a second line. Since getTextBounds() does not know about the space available for a line of text, the calculated height will be severely underestimating the actual height. – xmjx Jun 26 '21 at 13:12

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 23 '14 at 07:46

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Please try this:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    TextView edit = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.edit);
    edit.setTextSize(20);       
    edit.setText("Hello, world");       
    edit.measure(0, 0);
    int width = edit.getMeasuredWidth();
    Log.w("width", width.toString());
}

Before you get width, you have to measure the view / label / text edit. Please let me know if this is not working.

edited Jun 23 '14 at 07:46

Andrew T.

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answered Jun 23 '14 at 06:28

Iosif

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Both of the answers are correct , yours and the above one...Thnx its working. – BST Kaal Jun 23 '14 at 06:48
Plese mark as answer (the button below down-vote) And i'm glad it worked. – Iosif Jun 23 '14 at 06:49
This will return 0 because the view has not been drawn yet. It has to be done in a Runnable in `view.post()` for you to get the dimensions – OzzyTheGiant Aug 23 '19 at 16:07

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 17 '17 at 13:00

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TextView txt = new TextView(mContext);
txt.setText("Some Text)";
int height = txt.getLineCount() *  txt.getLineHeight();
int width = txt.getWidth();

answered Sep 17 '17 at 13:00

Monir Khlaf

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score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 23 '14 at 06:27

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Try this way,hope this will help you to solve your problem.

yourTextView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
   @Override
   public void onGlobalLayout() {
     int width = yourTextView.getMeasuredWidth();
     int height = yourTextView.getMeasuredHeight();

   }
});

edited Jun 23 '14 at 06:27

M D

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answered Jun 23 '14 at 06:26

Haresh Chhelana

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Hello @M D, can u plz take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25196894/how-to-get-list-item-data-in-bindview-when-clicking-on-radiobutton-in-android – BST Kaal Aug 08 '14 at 14:21

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 23 '14 at 06:29

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please tell me width in??? do you want ?

TextView method getWidth() gives you width of your view, in pixels

TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview);
textView.getWidth(); //width of your view, in pixels

answered Jun 23 '14 at 06:29

MilapTank

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I meant to find the width depending upon text. – BST Kaal Jun 23 '14 at 06:47

How to find the Text Area(Height/Width) of TextView programmatically in android

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