detect clipping in android TextView

Question

I have a TextView in my android application that has a set width on it. It\'s currently got a gravity of \"center_horitonzal\" and a set textSize (9sp). I pull values to put o

Answer 1

I wrote this function to trim off letters from the end of the text until it meets a certain width requirement.

The 0.38 function is setting the proportion of the screen I want to fill with this text, in this case, it was 38% since I wanted it to cover ~40% including padding. Worked for the cases I've tested it with.

Using this code to call the function below

DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
activity.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);

double maxWidth = (double)metrics.widthPixels*0.38 - 1;
TextPaint painter = station.getPaint();

String left = item.getLocationName();
left = trimToLength(painter, left, maxWidth);


textView.setText(left);

This is the function

public String trimToLength(TextPaint painter, String initialText, double width)
{
    String message = initialText;
    String output = initialText;

    float currentWidth = painter.measureText(output);
    while (currentWidth > width)
    {
        message = message.substring(0, message.length()-1);

        output = message + "...";

        currentWidth = painter.measureText(output);
    }

    return output;
}