Textview three dots when text truncates but also include the ending quote

Question

I have a textview with the property

android:maxLines="1"

In case the text is too long it truncates and add the three dots. i.e

If I want to put the text (including the quotes) "hello world one two three four"

It will display

"hello world one two....

but I would like to display the closing quote.

"hello world one two..."

How to achieve this??

You have to do it with two textViews only I guess. One with the truncated one and at the end text view with the quote. — hasan_shaikh, May 23 '18 at 10:23
detecting if textview is ellipsized might help : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4005933/how-do-i-tell-if-my-textview-has-been-ellipsized — Sahil, May 23 '18 at 10:27

Shubham Raitka · Answer 1 · 2018-05-23T11:32:06.913

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<TextView
    android:id="@+id/activity_main_tv_text"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/text"
    />

And in your activity,

val stringText = "hello world one two three four"
findViewById<TextView>(R.id.activity_main_tv_text).text = String.format("\"%s\"", stringText)

edited May 23 '18 at 11:32

answered May 23 '18 at 10:23

Shubham Raitka

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The string is not a constant – Kenenisa Bekele May 23 '18 at 10:41
This is how you can do it dynamically. – Shubham Raitka May 23 '18 at 10:48
This is a very simple solution to what you need here. – Shubham Raitka May 23 '18 at 10:50
I tried but did not work. – Kenenisa Bekele May 23 '18 at 11:09
Really! for me, it worked in one go. May I know what issue you are facing? – Shubham Raitka May 23 '18 at 11:27
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So the issue here is that the text should be long enough to show the there dots "hello world one two three...", you are just assigning a string with a particular format. – Kenenisa Bekele May 24 '18 at 12:35
Okay, so you wanted quotes and ellipsize end's 3 dots if the text is long. – Shubham Raitka May 24 '18 at 12:41
I think Biraj's answer here is the correct way https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18738050/textview-add-text-after-ellipsis-or-change-ellipsis-character?noredirect=1&lq=1 – Kenenisa Bekele May 25 '18 at 10:08
Biraj's answer helped a bit but the way I ended up doing is by using textView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnPreDrawListener to see if the text was Ellipsized, then I calculated the indexes of what using the layout and getEllipsisCount to know what was the end of the original string that was being cut, and I created a new string manually using the three dots and the quotes at the end – Kenenisa Bekele Aug 13 '18 at 16:24

Textview three dots when text truncates but also include the ending quote

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