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

Extend TextView and override onDraw with the code below. It will keep text aspect ratio but size it to fill the space. You could easily modify code to stretch if necessary.

  @Override
  protected void onDraw(@NonNull Canvas canvas) {
    TextPaint textPaint = getPaint();
    textPaint.setColor(getCurrentTextColor());
    textPaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
    textPaint.drawableState = getDrawableState();

    String text = getText().toString();
    float desiredWidth = getMeasuredWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight() - 2;
    float desiredHeight = getMeasuredHeight() - getPaddingTop() - getPaddingBottom() - 2;
    float textSize = textPaint.getTextSize();

    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      textPaint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), rect);
      float width = rect.width();
      float height = rect.height();

      float deltaWidth = width - desiredWidth;
      float deltaHeight = height - desiredHeight;

      boolean fitsWidth = deltaWidth <= 0;
      boolean fitsHeight = deltaHeight <= 0;

      if ((fitsWidth && Math.abs(deltaHeight) < 1.0)
          || (fitsHeight && Math.abs(deltaWidth) < 1.0)) {
        // close enough
        break;
      }

      float adjustX = desiredWidth / width;
      float adjustY = desiredHeight / height;

      textSize = textSize * (adjustY < adjustX ? adjustY : adjustX);

      // adjust text size
      textPaint.setTextSize(textSize);
    }
    float x = desiredWidth / 2f;
    float y = desiredHeight / 2f - rect.top - rect.height() / 2f;
    canvas.drawText(text, x, y, textPaint);
  }