android ellipsize multiline textview

Question

I need to ellipsize a multi-line textview. My component is large enough to display at least 4 lines with the ellipse, but only 2 lines are displayed. I tried to change the minimum and maximum number of rows of the component but it changes nothing.

Guidry

Do you have a style or theme that is applied to your TextView, that could be specifying a maximum size? – Darbie

did you find solution to this problem or not? – Beberg

Hi, after fighting with the problem of having the 2 lines of text (maxLines=2) and three dots at the end of the text (ellipsize=end) I have found that it works on some devices and on some not (I have ~15 devices to test). It works usually on devices with the resolution higher then HVGA (320x480px), but also on some HTC with 240x320px... The only solution is to have a custom TextView as shown below... – Arrear

Mine worked fine after removing "android:textIsSelectable=true" – Pancho

As Robert Nekic said, there was an Android bug which is now fixed: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2254 Would be good to know which is the first Android release where this is fixed. – Cuccuckold

For me, android:ellipsize="end" works, but android:ellipsize="middle" does not. – Lumbard

Answer 1

Here is a solution to the problem. It is a subclass of TextView that actually works for ellipsizing. The android-textview-multiline-ellipse code listed in an earlier answer I have found to be buggy in certain circumstances, as well as being under GPL, which doesn't really work for most of us. Feel free to use this code freely and without attribution, or under the Apache license if you would prefer. Note that there is a listener to notify you when the text becomes ellipsized, which I found quite useful myself.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.text.Layout;
import android.text.Layout.Alignment;
import android.text.StaticLayout;
import android.text.TextUtils.TruncateAt;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class EllipsizingTextView extends TextView {
    private static final String ELLIPSIS = "...";

    public interface EllipsizeListener {
        void ellipsizeStateChanged(boolean ellipsized);
    }

    private final List<EllipsizeListener> ellipsizeListeners = new ArrayList<EllipsizeListener>();
    private boolean isEllipsized;
    private boolean isStale;
    private boolean programmaticChange;
    private String fullText;
    private int maxLines = -1;
    private float lineSpacingMultiplier = 1.0f;
    private float lineAdditionalVerticalPadding = 0.0f;

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public void addEllipsizeListener(EllipsizeListener listener) {
        if (listener == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException();
        }
        ellipsizeListeners.add(listener);
    }

    public void removeEllipsizeListener(EllipsizeListener listener) {
        ellipsizeListeners.remove(listener);
    }

    public boolean isEllipsized() {
        return isEllipsized;
    }

    @Override
    public void setMaxLines(int maxLines) {
        super.setMaxLines(maxLines);
        this.maxLines = maxLines;
        isStale = true;
    }

    public int getMaxLines() {
        return maxLines;
    }

    @Override
    public void setLineSpacing(float add, float mult) {
        this.lineAdditionalVerticalPadding = add;
        this.lineSpacingMultiplier = mult;
        super.setLineSpacing(add, mult);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onTextChanged(CharSequence text, int start, int before, int after) {
        super.onTextChanged(text, start, before, after);
        if (!programmaticChange) {
            fullText = text.toString();
            isStale = true;
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        if (isStale) {
            super.setEllipsize(null);
            resetText();
        }
        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }

    private void resetText() {
        int maxLines = getMaxLines();
        String workingText = fullText;
        boolean ellipsized = false;
        if (maxLines != -1) {
            Layout layout = createWorkingLayout(workingText);
            if (layout.getLineCount() > maxLines) {
                workingText = fullText.substring(0, layout.getLineEnd(maxLines - 1)).trim();
                while (createWorkingLayout(workingText + ELLIPSIS).getLineCount() > maxLines) {
                    int lastSpace = workingText.lastIndexOf(' ');
                    if (lastSpace == -1) {
                        break;
                    }
                    workingText = workingText.substring(0, lastSpace);
                }
                workingText = workingText + ELLIPSIS;
                ellipsized = true;
            }
        }
        if (!workingText.equals(getText())) {
            programmaticChange = true;
            try {
                setText(workingText);
            } finally {
                programmaticChange = false;
            }
        }
        isStale = false;
        if (ellipsized != isEllipsized) {
            isEllipsized = ellipsized;
            for (EllipsizeListener listener : ellipsizeListeners) {
                listener.ellipsizeStateChanged(ellipsized);
            }
        }
    }

    private Layout createWorkingLayout(String workingText) {
        return new StaticLayout(workingText, getPaint(), getWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight(),
                Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, lineSpacingMultiplier, lineAdditionalVerticalPadding, false);
    }

    @Override
    public void setEllipsize(TruncateAt where) {
        // Ellipsize settings are not respected
    }
}

Gamali

Thanks for this code, it worked very well. One wrinkle for other users: you will need to explicitly call setMaxLines(int) rather than just setting the property in XML. – Photographic

Actually, it should be very trivial to map out these variables to XML attributes via attrs.xml. – Mobility

i found a problem if workingText is Chinese. because Chinese doesn't have SPACE, so this code works not perfectly， i have modified some code below, hope will help. while (createWorkingLayout(workingText + ELLIPSIS).getLineCount() > maxLines) { // int lastSpace = workingText.lastIndexOf(' '); // if (lastSpace == -1) { // break; // } // workingText = workingText.substring(0, lastSpace); // 由于我们大多数情况下workingText为中文，所以按照之前的逻辑找空格是不合适的 // 这里改成直接替换最后的字符 workingText = workingText.substring(0, workingText.length() - 1 - 1); } – Glycoprotein

Adding the following into the constructor will allow you to set the maxlines via XML: TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, new int[] { android.R.attr.maxLines }); setMaxLines(a.getInt(0, 2)); – Skiascope

This screws up all the non-string attributes that the TextViews CharSequence holds. For example give the TextView a Spannable with bold text, and the bold is not shown. – Senescent

I created an Android library with this component and changed it to be able to show as many lines of text as possible and ellipsize the last one; see github.com/triposo/barone You can see it in action in any of our travel guides, when displaying Suggestions: play.google.com/store/apps/… – Cuccuckold

The comment above works better than the original. However, you should modify the constructors to this: public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { this(context, attrs, android.R.attr.textViewStyle); } public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) { super(context, attrs, defStyle); super.setEllipsize(null); TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, new int[] { android.R.attr.maxLines }); setMaxLines(a.getInt(0, Integer.MAX_VALUE)); a.recycle(); } – Hugmetight

this has a ugly issue, when you put a LinearLayout, with a EllipsizingTextView followed by a TextView, it will only have one. – Castiglione

the problem is allocated in createWorkingLayout, and it will be showed on the xml editor as IllegalArgumentException: Layout: -40 < 0 at android.text.Layout.<init>(Layout.java:138) at android.text.StaticLayout.<init>(StaticLayout.java:104) StaticLayout.<init>(StaticLayout.java:90) StaticLayout.<init>(StaticLayout.java:68) StaticLayout.<init>(StaticLayout.java:48) at EllipsizingTextView.createWorkingLayout(EllipsizingTextView.java:199) Hope this help... – Castiglione

This does work on my Gingerbread device (Droid Bionic), however it has the downside of adding several levels in the stack during the draw phase. This has caused me to receive StackOverflowErrors in some cases...which, admittedly, has more to do with the complexity of my view hierarchy than the component itself. – Hagio

Extended the solution to support the other ellipsize types: gist.github.com/imhoff/6245640 – Torpedo

Doesn't works when doing textview.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()) – Phonometer

hooloovoo's answer is much easier and working solution – Intyre

@Cuccuckold Hey man Thanks a Ton! I just Drag Your EllipsizingTextView class into My Project and it works! – North

It's also possible to use it with EditText if needed – Sero

Doesn't work correctly when rendering html (Html.fromHtml) – Scut

Hi, your solutions work great! but I want to put Click event on ...ViewMore text. I tried to add clickable span in resetText(). But its not working – Cornhusking

Answer 2

In my app, I had similar problem: 2 line of string and, eventually, add "..." if the string was too long. I used this code in xml file into textview tag:

android:maxLines="2"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="false"

Electroform

And if it doesn't work with this code (in some versions), add the "special sauce" android:scrollHorizontally="true" – Intyre

Doesn't work if text set with setText(..., TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);. – Quasar

any news on spannable? @Simas. I've ran into the same issue – Sound

Answer 3

Try this, it works for me, I have 4 lines and it adds the "..." to the end of the last/fourth line. Its the same as morale's answer but i have singeLine="false" in there.

<TextView 
android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
android:maxLines="4" 
android:ellipsize="marquee" 
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!" />

Expressman

Lysogen, this solution doesn't actually work, at least not for others here. Perhaps you are using a device very different from other people, but as a general solution, this is not effective. – Gamali

yep, doesn't work. still truncated to two lines. this is frustrating! – Laverty

I copy this codes to a demo project and the tesxtview just shows 2 lines. – Stockholm

Works for me on Ice Cream Sandwich tablet! – Emancipator

Works for me on SII gingerbread. It would be interesting to know more about the devices on which this does not work. – Nonbelligerent

On Galaxy Ace with 2.2, didn't worked. On Nexus S with ICS, it shows 4 lines but no "..." at end. – Lubeck

This worked for me on a Droid 3 with 2.3.4 using 2 max lines and a fixed dp height. – Madder

it works on my device with a samsung asm9100 run android 6.0.1 android. – Hock

Answer 4

I've run into this problem, too. There's a rather old bug about it that remains unanswered: Bug 2254

Etymology

Eeeks. You are right. I tried that and could not make a 4-line ellipsis. It breaks always at the second line. – Aerophagia

The bug seems to have been fixed in 4.0.4. It is resolved on Jelly Bean, at least. – Sos

You shouldn't answer a question with an acknowledge – Intyre

Answer 5

I combined the solutions by Micah Hainline, Alex Băluț, and Paul Imhoff to create an ellipsizing multiline TextView that also supports Spanned text.

You only need to set android:ellipsize and android:maxLines.

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2011 Micah Hainline
 * Copyright (C) 2012 Triposo
 * Copyright (C) 2013 Paul Imhoff
 * Copyright (C) 2014 Shahin Yousefi
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.text.Layout;
import android.text.Layout.Alignment;
import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.text.StaticLayout;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.text.TextUtils.TruncateAt;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class EllipsizingTextView extends TextView {
    private static final CharSequence ELLIPSIS = "\u2026";
    private static final Pattern DEFAULT_END_PUNCTUATION
            = Pattern.compile("[\\.!?,;:\u2026]*$", Pattern.DOTALL);
    private final List<EllipsizeListener> mEllipsizeListeners = new ArrayList<>();
    private EllipsizeStrategy mEllipsizeStrategy;
    private boolean isEllipsized;
    private boolean isStale;
    private boolean programmaticChange;
    private CharSequence mFullText;
    private int mMaxLines;
    private float mLineSpacingMult = 1.0f;
    private float mLineAddVertPad = 0.0f;

    private Pattern mEndPunctPattern;

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
    }


    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, android.R.attr.textViewStyle);
    }


    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs,
                new int[]{ android.R.attr.maxLines }, defStyle, 0);
        setMaxLines(a.getInt(0, Integer.MAX_VALUE));
        a.recycle();
        setEndPunctuationPattern(DEFAULT_END_PUNCTUATION);
    }

    public void setEndPunctuationPattern(Pattern pattern) {
        mEndPunctPattern = pattern;
    }

    public void addEllipsizeListener(@NonNull EllipsizeListener listener) {
        mEllipsizeListeners.add(listener);
    }

    public void removeEllipsizeListener(EllipsizeListener listener) {
        mEllipsizeListeners.remove(listener);
    }

    public boolean isEllipsized() {
        return isEllipsized;
    }

    @SuppressLint("Override")
    public int getMaxLines() {
        return mMaxLines;
    }

    @Override
    public void setMaxLines(int maxLines) {
        super.setMaxLines(maxLines);
        mMaxLines = maxLines;
        isStale = true;
    }

    public boolean ellipsizingLastFullyVisibleLine() {
        return mMaxLines == Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    }

    @Override
    public void setLineSpacing(float add, float mult) {
        mLineAddVertPad = add;
        mLineSpacingMult = mult;
        super.setLineSpacing(add, mult);
    }

    @Override
    public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
        if (!programmaticChange) {
            mFullText = text;
            isStale = true;
        }
        super.setText(text, type);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
        if (ellipsizingLastFullyVisibleLine()) isStale = true;
    }

    @Override
    public void setPadding(int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
        super.setPadding(left, top, right, bottom);
        if (ellipsizingLastFullyVisibleLine()) isStale = true;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(@NonNull Canvas canvas) {
        if (isStale) resetText();
        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }

    private void resetText() {
        int maxLines = getMaxLines();
        CharSequence workingText = mFullText;
        boolean ellipsized = false;

        if (maxLines != -1) {
            if (mEllipsizeStrategy == null) setEllipsize(null);
            workingText = mEllipsizeStrategy.processText(mFullText);
            ellipsized = !mEllipsizeStrategy.isInLayout(mFullText);
        }

        if (!workingText.equals(getText())) {
            programmaticChange = true;
            try {
                setText(workingText);
            } finally {
                programmaticChange = false;
            }
        }

        isStale = false;
        if (ellipsized != isEllipsized) {
            isEllipsized = ellipsized;
            for (EllipsizeListener listener : mEllipsizeListeners) {
                listener.ellipsizeStateChanged(ellipsized);
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void setEllipsize(TruncateAt where) {
        if (where == null) {
            mEllipsizeStrategy = new EllipsizeNoneStrategy();
            return;
        }

        switch (where) {
            case END:
                mEllipsizeStrategy = new EllipsizeEndStrategy();
                break;
            case START:
                mEllipsizeStrategy = new EllipsizeStartStrategy();
                break;
            case MIDDLE:
                mEllipsizeStrategy = new EllipsizeMiddleStrategy();
                break;
            case MARQUEE:
                super.setEllipsize(where);
                isStale = false;
            default:
                mEllipsizeStrategy = new EllipsizeNoneStrategy();
                break;
        }
    }

    public interface EllipsizeListener {
        void ellipsizeStateChanged(boolean ellipsized);
    }

    private abstract class EllipsizeStrategy {
        public CharSequence processText(CharSequence text) {
            return !isInLayout(text) ? createEllipsizedText(text) : text;
        }

        public boolean isInLayout(CharSequence text) {
            Layout layout = createWorkingLayout(text);
            return layout.getLineCount() <= getLinesCount();
        }

        protected Layout createWorkingLayout(CharSequence workingText) {
            return new StaticLayout(workingText, getPaint(),
                    getMeasuredWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight(),
                    Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, mLineSpacingMult,
                    mLineAddVertPad, false /* includepad */);
        }

        protected int getLinesCount() {
            if (ellipsizingLastFullyVisibleLine()) {
                int fullyVisibleLinesCount = getFullyVisibleLinesCount();
                return fullyVisibleLinesCount == -1 ? 1 : fullyVisibleLinesCount;
            } else {
                return mMaxLines;
            }
        }

        protected int getFullyVisibleLinesCount() {
            Layout layout = createWorkingLayout("");
            int height = getHeight() - getCompoundPaddingTop() - getCompoundPaddingBottom();
            int lineHeight = layout.getLineBottom(0);
            return height / lineHeight;
        }

        protected abstract CharSequence createEllipsizedText(CharSequence fullText);
    }

    private class EllipsizeNoneStrategy extends EllipsizeStrategy {
        @Override
        protected CharSequence createEllipsizedText(CharSequence fullText) {
            return fullText;
        }
    }

    private class EllipsizeEndStrategy extends EllipsizeStrategy {
        @Override
        protected CharSequence createEllipsizedText(CharSequence fullText) {
            Layout layout = createWorkingLayout(fullText);
            int cutOffIndex = layout.getLineEnd(mMaxLines - 1);
            int textLength = fullText.length();
            int cutOffLength = textLength - cutOffIndex;
            if (cutOffLength < ELLIPSIS.length()) cutOffLength = ELLIPSIS.length();
            String workingText = TextUtils.substring(fullText, 0, textLength - cutOffLength).trim();
            String strippedText = stripEndPunctuation(workingText);

            while (!isInLayout(strippedText + ELLIPSIS)) {
                int lastSpace = workingText.lastIndexOf(' ');
                if (lastSpace == -1) break;
                workingText = workingText.substring(0, lastSpace).trim();
                strippedText = stripEndPunctuation(workingText);
            }

            workingText = strippedText + ELLIPSIS;
            SpannableStringBuilder dest = new SpannableStringBuilder(workingText);

            if (fullText instanceof Spanned) {
                TextUtils.copySpansFrom((Spanned) fullText, 0, workingText.length(), null, dest, 0);
            }
            return dest;
        }

        public String stripEndPunctuation(CharSequence workingText) {
            return mEndPunctPattern.matcher(workingText).replaceFirst("");
        }
    }

    private class EllipsizeStartStrategy extends EllipsizeStrategy {
        @Override
        protected CharSequence createEllipsizedText(CharSequence fullText) {
            Layout layout = createWorkingLayout(fullText);
            int cutOffIndex = layout.getLineEnd(mMaxLines - 1);
            int textLength = fullText.length();
            int cutOffLength = textLength - cutOffIndex;
            if (cutOffLength < ELLIPSIS.length()) cutOffLength = ELLIPSIS.length();
            String workingText = TextUtils.substring(fullText, cutOffLength, textLength).trim();

            while (!isInLayout(ELLIPSIS + workingText)) {
                int firstSpace = workingText.indexOf(' ');
                if (firstSpace == -1) break;
                workingText = workingText.substring(firstSpace, workingText.length()).trim();
            }

            workingText = ELLIPSIS + workingText;
            SpannableStringBuilder dest = new SpannableStringBuilder(workingText);

            if (fullText instanceof Spanned) {
                TextUtils.copySpansFrom((Spanned) fullText, textLength - workingText.length(),
                        textLength, null, dest, 0);
            }
            return dest;
        }
    }

    private class EllipsizeMiddleStrategy extends EllipsizeStrategy {
        @Override
        protected CharSequence createEllipsizedText(CharSequence fullText) {
            Layout layout = createWorkingLayout(fullText);
            int cutOffIndex = layout.getLineEnd(mMaxLines - 1);
            int textLength = fullText.length();
            int cutOffLength = textLength - cutOffIndex;
            if (cutOffLength < ELLIPSIS.length()) cutOffLength = ELLIPSIS.length();
            cutOffLength += cutOffIndex % 2;    // Make it even.
            String firstPart = TextUtils.substring(
                    fullText, 0, textLength / 2 - cutOffLength / 2).trim();
            String secondPart = TextUtils.substring(
                    fullText, textLength / 2 + cutOffLength / 2, textLength).trim();

            while (!isInLayout(firstPart + ELLIPSIS + secondPart)) {
                int lastSpaceFirstPart = firstPart.lastIndexOf(' ');
                int firstSpaceSecondPart = secondPart.indexOf(' ');
                if (lastSpaceFirstPart == -1 || firstSpaceSecondPart == -1) break;
                firstPart = firstPart.substring(0, lastSpaceFirstPart).trim();
                secondPart = secondPart.substring(firstSpaceSecondPart, secondPart.length()).trim();
            }

            SpannableStringBuilder firstDest = new SpannableStringBuilder(firstPart);
            SpannableStringBuilder secondDest = new SpannableStringBuilder(secondPart);

            if (fullText instanceof Spanned) {
                TextUtils.copySpansFrom((Spanned) fullText, 0, firstPart.length(),
                        null, firstDest, 0);
                TextUtils.copySpansFrom((Spanned) fullText, textLength - secondPart.length(),
                        textLength, null, secondDest, 0);
            }
            return TextUtils.concat(firstDest, ELLIPSIS, secondDest);
        }
    }
}

Complete source: EllipsizingTextView.java

Faucet

Thanks, the only working solution (tested several). Wondered, that your rating was 1. – Canty

I can confirm that it's the only clean and working solution, just use the EllipsizingTextView class and forget about hacks. – Riding

Answer 6

Got this problem to, and finaly, I build myself a short solution. You just have to ellipsize manually the line you want, your maxLine attribute will cut your text.

This example cut your text for 3 lines max

        final TextView title = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text);
        title.setText("A really long text");
        ViewTreeObserver vto = title.getViewTreeObserver();
        vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {

            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() {
                ViewTreeObserver obs = title.getViewTreeObserver();
                obs.removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
                if(title.getLineCount() > 3){
                    Log.d("","Line["+title.getLineCount()+"]"+title.getText());
                    int lineEndIndex = title.getLayout().getLineEnd(2);
                    String text = title.getText().subSequence(0, lineEndIndex-3)+"...";
                    title.setText(text);
                    Log.d("","NewText:"+text);
                }

            }
        });

Marie

Answer 7

In my case, there is no need to code this in Java. Everything works as expected. No need for something like android:singleLine="false".

<TextView
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:ellipsize="end"
  android:maxLines="4"
  android:text="@string/very_long_text" />

But there seems to be a bug in the layout preview of Android Studio (v3.0):

Given Android 7.1.1 on my device this is working:

Dachau

I too had this issue. Android Preview was wrong. In device its fine – Paulus

Also add android:textIsSelectable="false", because when true it won't work. It's false by default but explicitly adding it here is a good idea. – Biologist

Answer 8

Based on the solutions by Micah Hainline and alebs comment, I came of with the following approach that works with Spanned texts, so that e.g. myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<b>Testheader</b> - Testcontent")); works! Note that this only works with Spanned right now. It could maybe be modified to work with String and Spanned either way.

public class EllipsizingTextView extends TextView {
    private static final Spanned ELLIPSIS = new SpannedString("…");

      public interface EllipsizeListener {
        void ellipsizeStateChanged(boolean ellipsized);
      }

      private final List<EllipsizeListener> ellipsizeListeners = new ArrayList<EllipsizeListener>();
      private boolean isEllipsized;
      private boolean isStale;
      private boolean programmaticChange;
      private Spanned fullText;
      private int maxLines;
      private float lineSpacingMultiplier = 1.0f;
      private float lineAdditionalVerticalPadding = 0.0f;

      public EllipsizingTextView(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
      }

      public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, 0);
      }

      public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        super.setEllipsize(null);
        TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, new int[] { android.R.attr.maxLines });
        setMaxLines(a.getInt(0, Integer.MAX_VALUE));
      }

      public void addEllipsizeListener(EllipsizeListener listener) {
        if (listener == null) {
          throw new NullPointerException();
        }
        ellipsizeListeners.add(listener);
      }

      public void removeEllipsizeListener(EllipsizeListener listener) {
        ellipsizeListeners.remove(listener);
      }

      public boolean isEllipsized() {
        return isEllipsized;
      }

      @Override
      public void setMaxLines(int maxLines) {
        super.setMaxLines(maxLines);
        this.maxLines = maxLines;
        isStale = true;
      }

      public int getMaxLines() {
        return maxLines;
      }

      public boolean ellipsizingLastFullyVisibleLine() {
        return maxLines == Integer.MAX_VALUE;
      }

      @Override
      public void setLineSpacing(float add, float mult) {
        this.lineAdditionalVerticalPadding = add;
        this.lineSpacingMultiplier = mult;
        super.setLineSpacing(add, mult);
      }

      @Override
    public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
          if (!programmaticChange && text instanceof Spanned) {
              fullText = (Spanned) text;
              isStale = true;
            }
        super.setText(text, type);
    }

      @Override
      protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
        if (ellipsizingLastFullyVisibleLine()) {
          isStale = true;
        }
      }

      public void setPadding(int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
        super.setPadding(left, top, right, bottom);
        if (ellipsizingLastFullyVisibleLine()) {
          isStale = true;
        }
      }

      @Override
      protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        if (isStale) {
          resetText();
        }
        super.onDraw(canvas);
      }

      private void resetText() {
        Spanned workingText = fullText;
        boolean ellipsized = false;
        Layout layout = createWorkingLayout(workingText);
        int linesCount = getLinesCount();
        if (layout.getLineCount() > linesCount) {
          // We have more lines of text than we are allowed to display.
          workingText = (Spanned) fullText.subSequence(0, layout.getLineEnd(linesCount - 1));
          while (createWorkingLayout((Spanned) TextUtils.concat(workingText, ELLIPSIS)).getLineCount() > linesCount) {
            int lastSpace = workingText.toString().lastIndexOf(' ');
            if (lastSpace == -1) {
              break;
            }
            workingText = (Spanned) workingText.subSequence(0, lastSpace);
          }
          workingText = (Spanned) TextUtils.concat(workingText, ELLIPSIS);
          ellipsized = true;
        }
        if (!workingText.equals(getText())) {
          programmaticChange = true;
          try {
            setText(workingText);
          } finally {
            programmaticChange = false;
          }
        }
        isStale = false;
        if (ellipsized != isEllipsized) {
          isEllipsized = ellipsized;
          for (EllipsizeListener listener : ellipsizeListeners) {
            listener.ellipsizeStateChanged(ellipsized);
          }
        }
      }

      /**
       * Get how many lines of text we are allowed to display.
       */
      private int getLinesCount() {
        if (ellipsizingLastFullyVisibleLine()) {
          int fullyVisibleLinesCount = getFullyVisibleLinesCount();
          if (fullyVisibleLinesCount == -1) {
            return 1;
          } else {
            return fullyVisibleLinesCount;
          }
        } else {
          return maxLines;
        }
      }

      /**
       * Get how many lines of text we can display so their full height is visible.
       */
      private int getFullyVisibleLinesCount() {
        Layout layout = createWorkingLayout(new SpannedString(""));
        int height = getHeight() - getPaddingTop() - getPaddingBottom();
        int lineHeight = layout.getLineBottom(0);
        return height / lineHeight;
      }

      private Layout createWorkingLayout(Spanned workingText) {
        return new StaticLayout(workingText, getPaint(),
            getWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight(),
            Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, lineSpacingMultiplier,
            lineAdditionalVerticalPadding, false /* includepad */);
      }

      @Override
      public void setEllipsize(TruncateAt where) {
        // Ellipsize settings are not respected
      }
}

Atrocity

Answer 9

For those who are interested, here's a C# Xamarin.Android port of Micah's lovely solution:

public delegate void EllipsizeEvent(bool ellipsized);

public class EllipsizingTextView : TextView
{
    private const string Ellipsis = "...";

    public event EllipsizeEvent EllipsizeStateChanged;

    private bool isEllipsized;
    private bool isStale;
    private bool programmaticChange;
    private string fullText;
    private int maxLines = -1;
    private float lineSpacingMultiplier = 1.0f;
    private float lineAdditionalVerticalPadding;

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context) : base(context) 
    {
    }

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, IAttributeSet attrs) : base(context, attrs) 
    {
    }

    public EllipsizingTextView(Context context, IAttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) : base(context, attrs, defStyle) 
    {
    }

    public EllipsizingTextView(IntPtr javaReference, JniHandleOwnership transfer) : base(javaReference, transfer)
    {
    }

    public bool IsEllipsized 
    {
        get { return isEllipsized; }
    }

    public override void SetMaxLines(int maxLines) {
        base.SetMaxLines(maxLines);
        this.maxLines = maxLines;
        isStale = true;
    }

    public int GetMaxLines() 
    {
        return maxLines;
    }

    public override void SetLineSpacing(float add, float mult) 
    {
        lineAdditionalVerticalPadding = add;
        lineSpacingMultiplier = mult;
        base.SetLineSpacing(add, mult);
    }

    protected override void OnTextChanged(ICharSequence text, int start, int before, int after) 
    {
        base.OnTextChanged(text, start, before, after);
        if (!programmaticChange) 
        {
            fullText = text.ToString();
            isStale = true;
        }
    }

    protected override void OnDraw(Canvas canvas) 
    {
        if (isStale) 
        {
            base.Ellipsize = null;
            ResetText();
        }
        base.OnDraw(canvas);
    }

    private void ResetText() 
    {
        int maxLines = GetMaxLines();
        string workingText = fullText;
        bool ellipsized = false;
        if (maxLines != -1) 
        {
            Layout layout = CreateWorkingLayout(workingText);
            if (layout.LineCount > maxLines) 
            {
                workingText = fullText.Substring(0, layout.GetLineEnd(maxLines - 1)).Trim();
                while (CreateWorkingLayout(workingText + Ellipsis).LineCount > maxLines) 
                {
                    int lastSpace = workingText.LastIndexOf(' ');
                    if (lastSpace == -1) 
                    {
                        break;
                    }
                    workingText = workingText.Substring(0, lastSpace);
                }
                workingText = workingText + Ellipsis;
                ellipsized = true;
            }
        }
        if (workingText != Text) 
        {
            programmaticChange = true;
            try 
            {
                Text = workingText;
            } 
            finally 
            {
                programmaticChange = false;
            }
        }
        isStale = false;
        if (ellipsized != isEllipsized) 
        {
            isEllipsized = ellipsized;
            if (EllipsizeStateChanged != null)
                EllipsizeStateChanged(ellipsized);
        }
    }

    private Layout CreateWorkingLayout(string workingText) 
    {
        return new StaticLayout(workingText, Paint, Width - PaddingLeft - PaddingRight, Layout.Alignment.AlignNormal, lineSpacingMultiplier, lineAdditionalVerticalPadding, false);
    }

    public override TextUtils.TruncateAt Ellipsize
    {
        get 
        { 
            return base.Ellipsize;
        }
        set 
        { 
        }
    }
}

Sparrowgrass

Awesome, I was just about to find the original library and translate it myself, thanks ! – Immobile

Answer 10

To add ... in the end of the second line, saving 1 line if text is short:

android:maxLines="2"
android:ellipsize="end"

Palatine

Answer 11

Just add code in your activity

Textview.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END)

this will add ellipsis at the end of the textview

Excaudate

seems much simpler than extending TextView class – Hoffert

This works for me and is the simplest answer of all. – Tonita

this is same as setting ellipsize attr in xml. – Twirl

Answer 12

Extend TextView and override these methods:

CharSequence origText = "";
int maxLines = 2;

@Override
public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
    super.setText(text, type);
    origText = text;
}

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);

    CharSequence text = origText;
    onPreDraw();

    while(getLineCount() > maxLines) {
        text = text.subSequence(0, text.length()-1);
        super.setText(text + "...");
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
        onPreDraw();
    }

}

Veilleux

Answer 13

This is my solution. you can download demo on my github. https://github.com/krossford/KrossLib/tree/master/android-project

This screenshot was a demo that maxLines = 4, I think it works well.

package com.krosshuang.krosslib.lib.view;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/*
如何使用？
How to use it?

> 1.在xml或者java代码中常规使用
> 1.use it like other views on xml and java code.

> 2.[必须] setMaxLines 方法替代在xml中的 "android:maxLines" 属性
> 2.[must] call the setMaxLines method to instead of the xml property android:maxLines.

> 3.[可选] 注意调用 setMultilineEllipsizeMode() 方法，具体请查看注释
> 3.[option] you can invoke setMultilineEllipsizeMode method, but I have not implement it.

*/

/**
* android自己的TextView对多行ellipsize处理的不好
* Created by krosshuang on 2015/12/17.
*/
public class EllipsizeEndTextView extends TextView {

    private static final String LOG_TAG = "EllipsizeTextView";

    /** 每一行都有省略号 */
    //TODO 该特性待完成
    public static final int MODE_EACH_LINE = 1;

    /** 最后一行才有省略号 */
    public static final int MODE_LAST_LINE = 2;

    private static final String ELLIPSIZE = "...";


    private ArrayList<String> mTextLines = new ArrayList<String>();

    private CharSequence mSrcText = null;
    private int mMultilineEllipsizeMode = MODE_LAST_LINE;
    private int mMaxLines = 1;
    private boolean mNeedIgnoreTextChangeAndSelfInvoke = false;


    public EllipsizeEndTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public EllipsizeEndTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public EllipsizeEndTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onTextChanged(CharSequence text, int start, int lengthBefore, int lengthAfter) {
        if (!mNeedIgnoreTextChangeAndSelfInvoke) {
            super.onTextChanged(text, start, lengthBefore, lengthAfter);
            mSrcText = text;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void setMaxLines(int maxlines) {
        super.setMaxLines(maxlines);
        mMaxLines = maxlines;
    }

    public int getSupportedMaxLines() {
        return mMaxLines;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        setVisibleText();
        super.onDraw(canvas);
        mNeedIgnoreTextChangeAndSelfInvoke = false;
    }

    private void setVisibleText() {

        if (mSrcText == null) {
            return;
        }

        //获得可使用的width get available width
        final int aw = getWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight();

        String srcText = mSrcText.toString();

        //将原始的字符串先按原始数据中存在的换行符弄成多行字符串
        String[] lines = srcText.split("\n");
        //Log.i(LOG_TAG, "原始数据有: " + lines.length + " 行 " + Arrays.toString(lines));

        int maxLines = getSupportedMaxLines();

        //将原始文本分成几行后加入list
        mTextLines.clear();
        for (int i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
            mTextLines.add(lines[i]);
        }

        switch (mMultilineEllipsizeMode) {

            case MODE_EACH_LINE:
                break;

            default:
            case MODE_LAST_LINE:
                //开始遍历
                String eachLine = null;
                for (int i = 0; i < mTextLines.size() && i < maxLines - 1; i++) {

                    eachLine = mTextLines.get(i);

                    if (getPaint().measureText(eachLine, 0, eachLine.length()) > aw) {

                        //当前行超过可用宽度
                        boolean isOut = true;
                        int end = eachLine.length() - 1;
                        while (isOut) {
                            if (getPaint().measureText(eachLine.substring(0, end), 0, end) > aw) {
                                end--;
                            } else {
                                isOut = false;
                            }
                        }

                        mTextLines.set(i, eachLine.substring(0, end));  //当前行设置为裁剪后的
                        mTextLines.add(i + 1, eachLine.substring(end, eachLine.length()));  //将裁剪剩余的部分，加入下一行，刚好接下来发生的遍历就可以处理它，相当于一个递归

                    }
                }

                //遍历处理结束，所有的行都是在可用宽度以内的
                break;
        }

        //根据 maxLines 和 结果的行数，决定最小需要多少行
        int resultSize = Math.min(maxLines, mTextLines.size());

        //对最后一行做处理
        String lastLine = mTextLines.get(resultSize - 1);

        //最后一行有两种情况需要加...
        //1.最后一行数据本身很长，超过了可用宽度，那么裁剪后尾部加上...
        //2.最后一行不是很长，并没有超过可用宽度，但是它底下还有行没有显示，因此加上...
        if (getPaint().measureText(lastLine, 0, lastLine.length()) > aw || resultSize < mTextLines.size()) {

            boolean isOut = true;
            int end = lastLine.length();
            while (isOut) {
                if (getPaint().measureText(lastLine.substring(0, end) + ELLIPSIZE, 0, end + 3) > aw) {
                    end--;
                } else {
                    isOut = false;
                }
            }

            mTextLines.set(resultSize - 1, lastLine.substring(0, end) + ELLIPSIZE);
        }

        //开始构建结果
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i <  resultSize ; i++) {
            sb.append(mTextLines.get(i));
            if (i != resultSize - 1) {
                sb.append('\n');
            }
        }

        //构建完成，set
        if (sb.toString().equals(getText())) {
            return;
        } else {
            mNeedIgnoreTextChangeAndSelfInvoke = true;
            setText(sb.toString());
        }
    }

    /**
     * 设置ellipsize mode，暂时不支持
     * @deprecated
     * */
    public void setMultilineEllipsizeMode(int mode) {
        mMultilineEllipsizeMode = mode;
    }
}

Inharmonic

Answer 14

This is late, but I found an Apache licensed class from Android, that's used in the stock mail app: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/UnifiedEmail/+/184ec73/src/com/android/mail/ui/EllipsizedMultilineTextView.java

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2013 Google Inc.
 * Licensed to The Android Open Source Project.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.android.mail.ui;
import android.content.Context;
import android.text.Layout;
import android.text.Layout.Alignment;
import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.text.StaticLayout;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;
/**
 * A special MultiLine TextView that will apply ellipsize logic to only the last
 * line of text, such that the last line may be shorter than any previous lines.
 */
public class EllipsizedMultilineTextView extends TextView {
    public static final int ALL_AVAILABLE = -1;
    private int mMaxLines;
    public EllipsizedMultilineTextView(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
    }
    public EllipsizedMultilineTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }
    @Override
    public void setMaxLines(int maxlines) {
        super.setMaxLines(maxlines);
        mMaxLines = maxlines;
    }
    /**
     * Ellipsize just the last line of text in this view and set the text to the
     * new ellipsized value.
     * @param text Text to set and ellipsize
     * @param avail available width in pixels for the last line
     * @param paint Paint that has the proper properties set to measure the text
     *            for this view
     * @return the {@link CharSequence} that was set on the {@link TextView}
     */
    public CharSequence setText(final CharSequence text, int avail) {
        if (text == null || text.length() == 0) {
            return text;
        }
        setEllipsize(null);
        setText(text);
        if (avail == ALL_AVAILABLE) {
            return text;
        }
        Layout layout = getLayout();
        if (layout == null) {
            final int w = getWidth() - getCompoundPaddingLeft() - getCompoundPaddingRight();
            layout = new StaticLayout(text, 0, text.length(), getPaint(), w, Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL,
                    1.0f, 0f, false);
        }
        // find the last line of text and chop it according to available space
        final int lastLineStart = layout.getLineStart(mMaxLines - 1);
        final CharSequence remainder = TextUtils.ellipsize(text.subSequence(lastLineStart,
                text.length()), getPaint(), avail, TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
        // assemble just the text portion, without spans
        final SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder();
        builder.append(text.toString(), 0, lastLineStart);
        if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(remainder)) {
            builder.append(remainder.toString());
        }
        // Now copy the original spans into the assembled string, modified for any ellipsizing.
        //
        // Merely assembling the Spanned pieces together would result in duplicate CharacterStyle
        // spans in the assembled version if a CharacterStyle spanned across the lastLineStart
        // offset.
        if (text instanceof Spanned) {
            final Spanned s = (Spanned) text;
            final Object[] spans = s.getSpans(0, s.length(), Object.class);
            final int destLen = builder.length();
            for (int i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
                final Object span = spans[i];
                final int start = s.getSpanStart(span);
                final int end = s.getSpanEnd(span);
                final int flags = s.getSpanFlags(span);
                if (start <= destLen) {
                    builder.setSpan(span, start, Math.min(end, destLen), flags);
                }
            }
        }
        setText(builder);
        return builder;
    }
}

Arytenoid

Answer 15

I have had the same Problem. I fixed it by just deleting android:ellipsize="marquee"

Helper

This does work, though it should be mentioned that this will no longer add the ellipsis to the end of the last line, but in my opinion this still a good solution to the problem. Also, you will need to use the android:maxLines="4" to limit it to 4 lines. – Gump

OP's question was specifically for ellipsis on the end, so it won't work. – Laverty

Answer 16

Code worked very well! You can overload onSizeChanged method, if not only Text has to be Changed.

@Override
protected void onSizeChanged (int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
    isStale = true;
    super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
}

Censorious

Answer 17

This one handled my html as well,

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2013 Google Inc.
 * Licensed to The Android Open Source Project.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.android.mail.ui;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.text.Layout;
import android.text.Layout.Alignment;
import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.text.StaticLayout;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;
/**
 * A special MultiLine TextView that will apply ellipsize logic to only the last
 * line of text, such that the last line may be shorter than any previous lines.
 */
public class EllipsizedMultilineTextView extends TextView {
    public static final int ALL_AVAILABLE = -1;
    private int mMaxLines;

    public EllipsizedMultilineTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }
    public EllipsizedMultilineTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init(context, attrs);
    }
    public EllipsizedMultilineTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        init(context, attrs);
    }

    private final void init(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        final TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs,
            new int[] { android.R.attr.maxLines });
        setMaxLines(a.getInt(0, 2));
    }
    @Override
    public void setMaxLines(int maxlines) {
        super.setMaxLines(maxlines);
        mMaxLines = maxlines;
    }
    /**
     * Ellipsize just the last line of text in this view and set the text to the
     * new ellipsized value.
     * @param text Text to set and ellipsize
     * @param avail available width in pixels for the last line
     * @param paint Paint that has the proper properties set to measure the text
     *            for this view
     * @return the {@link CharSequence} that was set on the {@link TextView}
     */
    public CharSequence setText(final CharSequence text, int avail) {
        if (text == null || text.length() == 0) {
            return text;
        }
        setEllipsize(null);
        setText(text);
        if (avail == ALL_AVAILABLE) {
            return text;
        }
        Layout layout = getLayout();
        if (layout == null) {
            final int w = getWidth() - getCompoundPaddingLeft() - getCompoundPaddingRight();
            layout = new StaticLayout(text, 0, text.length(), getPaint(), w, Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL,
                1.0f, 0f, false);
        }
        // find the last line of text and chop it according to available space
        final int lastLineStart = layout.getLineStart(mMaxLines - 1);
        final CharSequence remainder = TextUtils.ellipsize(text.subSequence(lastLineStart,
            text.length()), getPaint(), avail, TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
        // assemble just the text portion, without spans
        final SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder();
        builder.append(text.toString(), 0, lastLineStart);
        if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(remainder)) {
            builder.append(remainder.toString());
        }
        // Now copy the original spans into the assembled string, modified for any ellipsizing.
        //
        // Merely assembling the Spanned pieces together would result in duplicate CharacterStyle
        // spans in the assembled version if a CharacterStyle spanned across the lastLineStart
        // offset.
        if (text instanceof Spanned) {
            final Spanned s = (Spanned) text;
            final Object[] spans = s.getSpans(0, s.length(), Object.class);
            final int destLen = builder.length();
            for (int i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
                final Object span = spans[i];
                final int start = s.getSpanStart(span);
                final int end = s.getSpanEnd(span);
                final int flags = s.getSpanFlags(span);
                if (start <= destLen) {
                    builder.setSpan(span, start, Math.min(end, destLen), flags);
                }
            }
        }
        setText(builder);
        return builder;
    }
}

Orignal Source LINK

Ahoufe

Answer 18

The top answer here from Micah Hainline works great, but even better is the library that was built from it by user aleb as he posted in the comments under Micahs answer:

I created an Android library with this component and changed it to be able to show as many lines of text as possible and ellipsize the last one; see github.com/triposo/barone

There are some more features to it, if you only need the TextView, it is here.

Maybe this will help others find it faster than I did :-)

Serajevo

Answer 19

There's no need to do extra codes in java just do this:

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/productDescription"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:maxLines="4"
    android:ellipsize="end"
    android:singleLine="false"
    android:text="Vehicle Compatibility (Brand/Model) - Hero Ez, Hero Maestro, Hero Pleasure, Honda Activa, Honda Dio, Piaggio Vespa, Suzuki Access, Suzuki Swish, Yamaha Alpha, Yamaha Fascino, Yamaha Ray\nFeatures: Higher NSD with Connected Blocks, Continuous centre Groove, Deeper Shoulder Grooves and Sipes on the tread Blocks\nFunctions: More rubber to wear ; Construction Type: Bias ; Grip: Excellent Dry &amp; Wet Grip ; Functions:Functions: More rubber to wear Better mass transfer, More 'biting' edges to Grip on or Off road" />

Screenshot:

Culmination

Answer 20

I've found that using ConstraintLayout with start and end bounds setup plus layout_width="0dp" sees the ellipses for multiline TextView. A solution for AppWidget remains at large.

Overdraw

Answer 21

Try this

<TextView
  android:id="@+id/textId"
  android:layout_width="0dp"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:ellipsize="end"
  android:maxLines="2"
  android:text="This is a very long dummy text"/>

Piston

Answer 22

There are a few attributes you should check: android:lines, android:minLines, android:maxLines. To display a maximum of 4 lines and ellipsize it, you just need android:maxLines and android:ellipsize:

<TextView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:maxLines="4"
    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:text="Hai!"
    />

Aerophagia

How to use these ? The text is still truncated to two lines whatever the value that I give them – Guidry

How are you setting it? I think you're missing something but it is hard to guess. – Aerophagia

I used the same settings but my text is always trunked to two lines – Guidry

This answer does not even work... You should try your answers before posting them. – Benefield

@Kevin: This answer is very old. You should try it with an Android version from January 29, 2010 before saying that it doesn't work and downvoting it. – Aerophagia

Answer 23

You need to include this in your textview:

android:singleLine="false"

by default its true. You need to explicitly set it false.

Expressman

Seriously, Try this if you don't think it works it does for me: code <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:maxLines="4" android:ellipsize="marquee" android:singleLine="false" android:text="Hai make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines!" /> – Expressman

android:singleLine is definitely FALSE by default – Lishalishe