How to use custom ellipsis in Android TextView

Question

I have a TextView with maxlines=3 and I would like to use my own ellipsis, instead of

\"Lore ipsum ...\"

I need

\"Lore ips         


        

Answer 1

Here is a solution for Kotlin.

The yourTextView.post{} is necessary because the textview won't be ellipsized until after it is rendered.

  val customSuffix = "... [See more]"
  yourTextView.post {
    if (yourTextView.layout.getEllipsisStart(-1) != -1) {
      val newText = yourTextView.text.removeRange(
          yourTextView.layout.getEllipsisStart(-1) - customSuffix.length, yourTextView.text.length
      )
      yourTextView.text = String.format("%s%s", newText, customSuffix)
    }
  }