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Phantom
Phantom

Reputation: 1028

Extend the height of a ListView element so that the text appear on multiple lines

I am trying to develop an app which, in landscape mode, it splits the activity in 2 fragments. In the first fragment, I have a listView which contains an icon and some text. My problem is, if the text is long enough, the text is shortened and 3 dots appears so that it shows the text is longer than that. How can I make the text extend on multiple rows so that the text is no longer shortened, but shown whole ?

I've searched for other answers, but I couldn't find any of them suiting.

The xml for each row looks like this: 

            <ImageView
                android:id="@+id/ImageView1"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
                android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
                android:contentDescription="@string/empty"
                android:padding="1dp"
                android:src="@drawable/icon" >
            </ImageView>

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/TextView1"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:paddingLeft="2dp"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:text="@string/text_view"
                android:textStyle="bold" >
            </TextView>

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 309

Answers (2)

N J
N J

Reputation: 27515

Try after removing android:singleLine="true" line

As it forcing textview to show only in one line

             <TextView
                android:id="@+id/TextView1"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:paddingLeft="2dp"
                android:text="@string/text_view"
                android:textStyle="bold" >
            </TextView>

Upvotes: 1

Logic
Logic

Reputation: 2258

Try to change your TextView to following:

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:text="Dummy Text"
    android:textColor="#000000"
    android:lines="2" <!-- put this line if you always want to show 2 lines -->
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:maxLines="2" <!-- max number of size... used when text is long -->
   />

Upvotes: 1

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