Meaning of the ellipsise options

Question

I see that there are 4 different values to android:ellipsize:

none,start,mid,end and marquee

What is the meaning and effect of setting each of these?

Unpile

#2161119 – Baddie

Answer 1

See the below image to know how android:ellipsize works

I have used following xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="none" 
        android:singleLine="false" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="25dip" />

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="start" 
        android:singleLine="false" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="25dip" />

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="middle" 
        android:singleLine="false" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="25dip" />

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="end" 
        android:singleLine="false" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="25dip" />

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="marquee" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" />

</LinearLayout>

Miscount

cant be explained better .. so marquee and end has same effect .I was using in my textview marquee and it was not coming on device and just tried testing with end and its coming . Any comment on this behavior.Thank you very much – Unpile

You set android:maxLines="4", and TextViews have 2 lines. Why? – Farro

Middle and start ellipsize don't work for Honeycomb and later version of Android. – Dumyat

@Dumyat that is not necessarily true (at least on Nexus 5 running Android L in Jan 2016) – Swiss

for the case by @png, you need to set singleLine=true. interestingly, when you combo ellipsize=marquee & singleLine=true, you don't get the deprecation warning. – Bannasch