Word has not enough space in single line

Question

I have an TextView with a big fontsize and if I have a long word only the last char is put into the next line. For example :

Zusammenarbei

t

Now I would like to format the text to look like this:

Zusammenarb -

t

Is there a possibility to achive this?

You should look into hyphenation, there is more information in this SO link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4454911/hyphenation-in-android — Marcel50506, Aug 25 '16 at 11:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '16 at 11:22

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I guess better than doing Hyphenation, you can do something better.Consider the following image.

I guess green one will be much suitable for your need. Just declare your textview as follows:

 <TextView
            android:id="@+id/yourUniqueID"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textSize="15sp"
            android:ellipsize="end"  <!--THIS WILL DO FOR YOU-->
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:text="test"/>

answered Aug 25 '16 at 11:22

nobalG

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Hello and thank you for your answer but the textview has multiple lines and this one isnt the last one so i can't use this strategy – Max Gierlachowski Aug 25 '16 at 11:46
Reduce the text size to some extent then – nobalG Aug 25 '16 at 11:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 25 '16 at 11:23

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Look at the break strategy of the TextView

android:breakStrategy="high_quality"

constant      value               description
high_quality    1   Line breaking uses high-quality strategy, including hyphenation.

answered Aug 25 '16 at 11:23

Uma Kanth

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Word has not enough space in single line

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