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john_ryan
john_ryan

Reputation: 1787

Android TextView line break

I have a TextView that contains a list of comma seperated phone numbers. i.e. (917) 234-5678, (917) 423-2312 etc

The problem is that the TextView line breaking on spaces so i get something like this:

|(917) 234-5678, (917) 456-8290, (917)|
|423-2313                             |

Is there any way to add an "invisible" character that will prevent the TextView from breaking mid-phone number, or alternately some other way of controlling where the line breaks?

UPDATE: One other note, the strings are unknown so I can't just add line breaks in the right place.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1515

Answers (4)

john_ryan
john_ryan

Reputation: 1787

Thanks to @comrade for pointing out the related question. By doing this:

number.replace(" ", "\u00A0")

on each number before concatenating them with commas I was able to get the line break to work as intended.

Upvotes: 1

Budius
Budius

Reputation: 39836

you could add a line break after every comma. For example:

String phoneNumbers = .... your numbers
phoneNumbers.replace(",", ",\n"); // this adds a line break after all commas

update:

after comment, so maybe you should remove the extra spaces that happen mid-number. Something like:

phoneNumbers.replace(" ", "").replace(",", ", "); // remove all the spaces and re-add one space after the comma, that way auto-line break only happens in-between numbers

The point is that TextView does not have any feature to change the way it breaks lines. So your solution must rely on passing a String to it that it will be more compatible with the way it handles it.

Upvotes: 1

Alex Chengalan
Alex Chengalan

Reputation: 8281

You can do something like yourPhoneText.replace(") ", ")");

More example is here.

Upvotes: 0

Alvin
Alvin

Reputation: 894

I think your problem is having a TextView with constant width. Have you tried setting TV width to wrap_content ?

Upvotes: 0

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