When I display a whitespace followed by long string in android textview, it skips the first line and displays the actual string on the next

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I am having trouble while displaying a string in textview

policyValTv.setText(": " +trimPolicyNo);

Problem is if the trimPolicyNo is a long string, then the textview(policyValTv) displays the whitespace but breaks the line and displays the actual string on the next line. How can I avoid this? I want to display all on one line but not keep singleLine = true. Please help

[read this][1] maybe can help you ... [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25247093/1651200 — souttab, Jul 23 '15 at 10:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '15 at 10:10

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Try with policyValTv.setText(":\u00A0" +trimPolicyNo); where \u00A0 is the unicode char for non breaking space.

answered Jul 23 '15 at 10:10

Mimmo Grottoli

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '15 at 10:17

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Add to your textView in layout XML

 android:maxLines="2"
 android:ellipsize="end"
 android:singleLine="false"

answered Jul 23 '15 at 10:17

Aown Raza

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When I display a whitespace followed by long string in android textview, it skips the first line and displays the actual string on the next

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