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

Best workaround for this is to add a dummy View of desired height (i.e. this will add padding itself) at the bottom of your view.

<TableRow
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
 android:layout_marginRight="5dp" >
     <View 
       android:layout_width="match_parent" 
       android:layout_height="30dp"/>
</TableRow>

Like in my case I added one more table row at the bottom of the view. Hope this could help someone.

Answer 2

For me, this solution worked like a charm.

The height and width of my outermost layout was set dynamically, so the TextView contained within got it's text cut even if I set android:maxLines in my xml (for different devices it was behaving differently).

After trying out different methods, finally I got a solution that fixed my issue.

Textview:

public class CustomTextView extends androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatTextView {
    public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }
    public CustomTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }
    public CustomTextView(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);
            this.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
        }
    }
}

xml:

<com.myproject.android.customviews.CustomTextView
    android:id="@+id/tv_partner_description"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:gravity="top"
    android:textColor="@color/white"
    android:textSize="@dimen/text_small_medium" />