How to adjust text font size to fit textview

Question

Is there any way in android to adjust the textsize in a textview to fit the space it occupies?

E.g. I\'m using a TableLayout and adding several Te

Answer 1

Thanks a lot to https://stackoverflow.com/users/234270/speedplane. Great answer!

Here is an improved version of his response that also take care of height and comes with a maxFontSize attribute to limit font size (was useful in my case, so I wanted to share it) :

package com.;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.widget.TextView;


public class FontFitTextView extends TextView
{

    private Paint mTestPaint;
    private float maxFontSize;
    private static final float MAX_FONT_SIZE_DEFAULT_VALUE = 20f;

    public FontFitTextView(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
        initialise(context, null);
    }

    public FontFitTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet)
    {
        super(context, attributeSet);
        initialise(context, attributeSet);
    }

    public FontFitTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet, int defStyle)
    {
        super(context, attributeSet, defStyle);
        initialise(context, attributeSet);
    }

    private void initialise(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet)
    {
        if(attributeSet!=null)
        {
            TypedArray styledAttributes = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attributeSet, R.styleable.FontFitTextView);
            maxFontSize = styledAttributes.getDimension(R.styleable.FontFitTextView_maxFontSize, MAX_FONT_SIZE_DEFAULT_VALUE);
            styledAttributes.recycle();
        }
        else
        {
            maxFontSize = MAX_FONT_SIZE_DEFAULT_VALUE;
        }

        mTestPaint = new Paint();
        mTestPaint.set(this.getPaint());
        //max size defaults to the initially specified text size unless it is too small
    }

    /* Re size the font so the specified text fits in the text box
     * assuming the text box is the specified width.
     */
    private void refitText(String text, int textWidth, int textHeight)
    {
        if (textWidth <= 0)
            return;
        int targetWidth = textWidth - this.getPaddingLeft() - this.getPaddingRight();
        int targetHeight = textHeight - this.getPaddingTop() - this.getPaddingBottom();
        float hi = maxFontSize;
        float lo = 2;
//      final float threshold = 0.5f; // How close we have to be
        final float threshold = 1f; // How close we have to be

        mTestPaint.set(this.getPaint());

        Rect bounds = new Rect();

        while ((hi - lo) > threshold)
        {
            float size = (hi + lo) / 2;
            mTestPaint.setTextSize(size);

            mTestPaint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), bounds);

            if (bounds.width() >= targetWidth || bounds.height() >= targetHeight)
                hi = size; // too big
            else
                lo = size; // too small

//          if (mTestPaint.measureText(text) >= targetWidth)
//              hi = size; // too big
//          else
//              lo = size; // too small
        }
        // Use lo so that we undershoot rather than overshoot
        this.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, lo);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
    {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
        int parentWidth = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
        int height = getMeasuredHeight();
        refitText(this.getText().toString(), parentWidth, height);
        this.setMeasuredDimension(parentWidth, height);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onTextChanged(final CharSequence text, final int start, final int before, final int after)
    {
        refitText(text.toString(), this.getWidth(), this.getHeight());
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh)
    {
        if (w != oldw)
        {
            refitText(this.getText().toString(), w, h);
        }
    }
}

Corresponding /res/values/attr.xml file:

Example:

...

 .FontFitTextView
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:singleLine="true"
                    android:text="Sample Text"
                    android:textSize="28sp"
                    res-auto:maxFontSize="35sp"/>

...

To use the new maxFontSize attribute, don't forget to add xmlns:res-auto="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" as show in the example.