Get the height of a TextView

Question

I have some text that will be put in a TextView. I did that using setText().

Now I need to find the number of lines or height the text occupies

Answer 1

Because this size is known only after the layout is finished, one way is to create a custom text view and use onSizeChanged method. Another way is this:

    final TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTextView);
    ViewTreeObserver vto = tv.getViewTreeObserver(); 
    vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() { 
        @Override 
        public void onGlobalLayout() { 
            Toast.makeText(MyActivity.this, tv.getWidth() + " x " + tv.getHeight(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            tv.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
        } 
    }); 

This code I've found here: How to retrieve the dimensions of a view?