How to disable the TextView maxLines programmatically?

Question

I\'m having a hard time reseting the maxLines attribute of a TextView programmatically.

Just tried setting to 0 and it doesn\'t wo

Answer 1

The -1 should not crash your application. This actually what is used inside TextView by default:

case com.android.internal.R.styleable.TextView_maxLines:
            setMaxLines(a.getInt(attr, -1));
            break;

This piece of code shows, that when android:maxLines is not specified, then code uses -1 to set the value via setMaxLines() function.

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I also made test application to verify my conclusions. And it works fine without crashing:

public class HelloWorld extends Activity
{           

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    {       
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity);

        TextView text = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text);
        text.setMaxLines(-1);    
    }
}