Android: Last line of textview cut off

Question

I have a horizontal LinearLayout containing a TextView followed by a Spinner next to it. This LinearLayout is dynamically

Answer 1

I've encountered the same cut-off issue as shown at the screenshot. It is caused by the baseline alignment in the horizontal LinearLayout. TextView and Spinner have different baselines due to font size difference. To fix the issue it is needed to disable baseline alignment for the layout by setting:

android:baselineAligned="false"

or in the code:

layout.setBaselineAligned(false);

Answer 2

I had the same problem, and found that simply adding

android:includeFontPadding="false"

the final line of text no longer had its descenders clipped.

Answer 3

I found a different solution by extending TextView and adding a custom Class like this:

 public class AdaptingTextView extends TextView {

    public AdaptingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    public AdaptingTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public AdaptingTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);

        // set fitting lines to prevent cut text
        int fittingLines = h / this.getLineHeight();
        if (fittingLines > 0) {
            this.setLines(fittingLines);
        }
    }

}

Answer 4

If you have this problem and your TextView is inside a RelativeLayout, try switching the RelativeLayout for a LinearLayout.

That fixed the problem for me

Answer 5

My solution was close to the accepted one, but I had to change it to

   android:layout_gravity="fill_vertical"

instead. Otherwise the other rows would have been stretch as well with added line breaks at random places. For example, the biggest row had 4 lines, so another row was changed from

this is a testphrase

to

thi
s is
a testph
rase

Answer 6

getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener does not work in a recycler view. If you're using a recycler, use View.addOnLayoutChangeListener:

I found that the ellipsizing I defined for textView in xml was not always reflected so I programmatically set it before reassigning the text property. This worked for me.

textView.addOnLayoutChangeListener(new OnLayoutChangeListener() {
    @Override
        public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right, int bottom,
                                   int oldLeft, int oldTop, int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
            textView.removeOnLayoutChangeListener(this);
            float lineHeight = textView.getLineHeight();
            int maxLines = (int) (textView.getHeight() / lineHeight);
            if (textView.getLineCount() != maxLines) {
                textView.setLines(maxLines);
                textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
                // Re-assign text to ensure ellipsize is performed correctly.
                textView.setText(model.getText());
            }
        }
    });