Android: How to create a Dialog with a Scrolling title?

Question

Ok so I've read the Custom Dialog explanation on the And Dev website http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html#CustomDialog

It show's you how to make a custom dialog, but not how to customise the title!

Basically my title is too long and I want it to scroll (like textview) or better still have a 'marquee' effect i think it's called.

Or if I can't make it scroll, give it more space to wrap onto more lines!

Any ideas, I don't hold out much hope as it's not on android.dev :-(

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '11 at 14:23

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You can make dialog title multiline:

TextView title = (TextView) dialog.findViewById(android.R.id.title);
title.setSingleLine(false);

answered Aug 31 '11 at 14:23

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I think this answer is somewhat better than subclassing the dialog when that is not needed. – Alex.F Nov 05 '14 at 11:28

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '10 at 07:52

Customizig window (and thus also dialog) titles can be done by requesting the window feature CUSTOM_TITLE, which must be done before setContentView.

So in your Dialog / Activity subclasses onCreate(), call the following:

super.onCreate(savedInstance);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE); // <- insert this

Then, after your setContentView, do this:

setContentView(R.layout.main);
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.custom_title); // <- insert this

The layout can generally contain anything you want. For a marquee text control. e.g. do this:

layout/custom_title.xml:

<FrameLayout android:id="@+id/FrameLayout01" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    >
    <TextView android:id="@+id/caption_text" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:text="This is a very very long text that will not fit into a caption regularly, so it will be displayed using marquee..." 
        android:lines="1"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
        android:scrollHorizontally="true" 
        android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever" 
        android:ellipsize="marquee"
        ></TextView>
</FrameLayout>

Due to some constraints with the marquee feature, the text view has to be made focusable and it will only be scrolling when focused (which it initially should be).

what if i have to use setTitle(myString); in my activity ?? – Kishore Jan 02 '14 at 07:57 — Kishore, Jan 02 '14 at 07:57

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 01 '13 at 11:31

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I consider a combination of RuslanK's (for getting the TextView) Thorstenvv's (for making TextView scrollable) answer to be best practice.

answered Aug 01 '13 at 11:31

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