How to get max lines of Text

Question

How to get the maximum number of lines that can be written in TextView? I tried this:

DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics ();
getWindowManager (). getDefaultDisplay (). getMetrics (metrics);
float width = metrics.widthPixels;
float height = metrics.heightPixels;

int lines = (int) (height / textView.getLineHeight ());

System.out.println (lines);

However, this variant gives the wrong information.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

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textview.getLineCount()

It's all in the documentation

EDIT: I was a bit too fast. I assume you want the number of lines that CAN be inside a textview instead of how many there currently ARE in the textview... In that case -> have a look at this question: Calculate text size according to width of text area

edited May 23 '17 at 10:08

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answered Dec 10 '11 at 12:25

Entreco

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '11 at 13:42

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textview.getLineCount() will help you

answered Dec 10 '11 at 13:42

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 09 '19 at 06:56

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textView.getHeight() / textView.getLineHeight()

textView.getHeight() and textView.getLineHeight() both will consider the height on the screen with the screen dpi.

Here is the post to get the correct height of view. View's getWidth() and getHeight() returns 0

edited Apr 09 '19 at 06:56

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answered Apr 09 '19 at 03:05

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How to get max lines of Text

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