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

I had the same problem and wrote a class that seems to work for me. Basically, I used a static layout to draw the text in a separate canvas and remeasure until I find a font size that fits. You can see the class posted in the topic below. I hope it helps.

Auto Scale TextView Text to Fit within Bounds

Answer 2

You can now do this without a third party library or a widget. It's built into TextView in API level 26. Add android:autoSizeTextType="uniform" to your TextView and set height to it. That's all. Use app:autoSizeTextType="uniform" for backward compatibility

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/autosizing-textview.html

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="200dp"
    android:autoSizeTextType="uniform" />

You can also use TextViewCompat for compatibility.

Answer 3

I wrote a short helper class that makes a textview fit within a certain width and adds ellipsize "..." at the end if the minimum textsize cannot be achieved.

Keep in mind that it only makes the text smaller until it fits or until the minimum text size is reached. To test with large sizes, set the textsize to a large number before calling the help method.

It takes Pixels, so if you are using values from dimen, you can call it like this:

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float minTextSizePx = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.min_text_size);
float maxTextWidthPx = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.max_text_width);
WidgetUtils.fitText(textView, text, minTextSizePx, maxTextWidthPx);

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This is the class I use:

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public class WidgetUtils {

    public static void fitText(TextView textView, String text, float minTextSizePx, float maxWidthPx) {
        textView.setEllipsize(null);
        int size = (int)textView.getTextSize();
        while (true) {
            Rect bounds = new Rect();
            Paint textPaint = textView.getPaint();
            textPaint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), bounds);
            if(bounds.width() < maxWidthPx){
                break;
            }
            if (size <= minTextSizePx) {
                textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
                break;
            }
            size -= 1;
            textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, size);
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

This should be a simple solution:

public void correctWidth(TextView textView, int desiredWidth)
{
    Paint paint = new Paint();
    Rect bounds = new Rect();

    paint.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface());
    float textSize = textView.getTextSize();
    paint.setTextSize(textSize);
    String text = textView.getText().toString();
    paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), bounds);

    while (bounds.width() > desiredWidth)
    {
        textSize--;
        paint.setTextSize(textSize);
        paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length(), bounds);
    }

    textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, textSize);
}

Answer 5

Inspired by the previous posters I wanted to share my solution. It works with a scale factor which is applied to the previous font size to make it fit the available space. In addition to prevent unexpected behaviour of TextViews onDraw method, it simply draws the text on its own.

public class FontFitTextView extends TextView {

    // How much of the available space should be used in percent.
    private static final float MARGINHEIGHT = 0.8f;
    private static final float MARGINWIDTH = 0.8f;

    private Paint paint;
    private int viewWidth;
    private int viewHeight;
    private float textHeight;
    private float textWidth;

    public FontFitTextView(Context c) {
        this(c, null);
    }

    public FontFitTextView(Context c, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(c, attrs);
        initComponent();
    }

    // Default constructor override
    public FontFitTextView(Context c, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(c, attrs, defStyle);
        initComponent();
    }

    private void initComponent() {
        paint = new Paint();
        paint.setTextSize(30);
        paint.setTextAlign(Align.CENTER);
        paint.setAntiAlias(true);
    }

    public void setFontColor(int c) {
        paint.setColor(c);
    }

    private void calcTextSize(String s, Canvas c) {

        float availableHeight = viewHeight;
        float availableWidth = viewWidth;

        // This value scales the old font up or down to match the available
        // space.
        float scale = 1.0f;

        // Rectangle for measuring the text dimensions
        Rect rect = new Rect();
        float oldFontSize = paint.getTextSize();

        // Calculate the space used with old font size
        paint.getTextBounds(s, 0, s.length(), rect);
        textWidth = rect.width();
        textHeight = rect.height();

        // find scale-value to fit the text horizontally
        float scaleWidth = 1f;
        if (textWidth > 0.0f) {
            scaleWidth = (availableWidth) / textWidth * MARGINWIDTH;
        }

        // find scale-value to fit the text vertically
        float scaleHeight = 1f;
        if (textHeight > 0.0f) {
            scaleHeight = (availableHeight) / textHeight * MARGINHEIGHT;
        }

        // We are always limited by the smaller one
        if (scaleWidth < scaleHeight) {
            scale = scaleWidth;
        } else {
            scale = scaleHeight;
        }

        // We apply the scale to the old font size to make it bigger or smaller
        float newFontSize = (oldFontSize * scale);
        paint.setTextSize(newFontSize);
    }

    /**
     * Calculates the origin on the Y-Axis (width) for the text in this view.
     * 
     * @return
     */
    private float calcStartDrawingPosX() {
        float left = getMeasuredWidth();
        float centerY = left - (viewWidth / 2);
        return centerY;
    }

    /**
     * Calculates the origin on the Y-Axis (height) for the text in this view.
     * 
     * @return
     */
    private float calcStartDrawingPosY() {
        float bottom = getMeasuredHeight();
        // The paint only centers horizontally, origin on the Y-Axis stays at
        // the bottom, thus we have to lift the origin additionally by the
        // height of the font.
        float centerX = bottom - (viewHeight / 2) + (textHeight / 2);
        return centerX;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        String text = getText().toString();
        if (text.length() > 0) {
            calcTextSize(text, canvas);
            canvas.drawText(text, calcStartDrawingPosX(),
                    calcStartDrawingPosY(), paint);
        }
    };

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

Answer 6

Works with modification

You need to set the text view size like this because otherwise setTextSize assumes the value is in SP units:

setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, trySize);

And you needed to explicitly add this code.

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