Limit numbers of lines in TextView

Question

I have a scrollable textView, and I want to limit the number of lines displayed, however xml properties are not working :

Answer 1

put your text view with in scroll view and set fixed height of scroll view.

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="120dip" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_addesc"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:maxLines="12"
        android:scrollbars="vertical"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
        android:textSize="15sp" />
</ScrollView>

set properties as per your need