How do you create a 'read more' layout in Android?

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I want to display a 'read more' link when the obtained text increases to a certain limit, so that if user wants to read in detail, they can click on read more just like the Application installation page of Play Store

Like Read More in this page

Please suggest me on how to implement this

possible duplicate of [Add "View More" at the end of textview after 3 lines](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19675331/add-view-more-at-the-end-of-textview-after-3-lines) — Ed Holloway-George, May 14 '15 at 13:29

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '15 at 13:33

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You can refer this. Layout available on git hub

https://github.com/traex/ExpandableLayout

answered May 14 '15 at 13:33

Moinkhan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '15 at 14:22

Thank you all for giving answer, here is how i solved it. There is a property called android:maxLines="" using this property we can add Read More text view below the text view by making it clickable so that when user clicks on the text view we can perform any action we wanted Example:

<TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
        android:text="Device supports NFS etc....."
        android:maxLines="4"
        android:id="@+id/description" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
        android:text="Read More"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:textColor="#0066FF"
        android:id="@+id/readmore" />

I hope this helps.

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '15 at 13:27

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Look like on google play this link opens other activity. So, it is just button with startActivity() behavior.

answered May 14 '15 at 13:27

Yevgen Kulik

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This should be a comment and not an answer, please remove it – Ed Holloway-George May 14 '15 at 13:29
@Ed Looks to me he is actually giving an answer. – natario May 14 '15 at 13:37

How do you create a 'read more' layout in Android?

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