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Mafujul
Mafujul

Reputation: 1100

How to show the last portion of text in TextView

I have a TextView in which I want to show the last portion of a String. Normally if I set a large text in TextView the first portion of text will be shown in TextView. But my requirement is to show the last portion (Last full stop will be shown to left of TextView). I don't know the text size, but it will be large. I have to use single line and I don't want to use ellipses (3 dot).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 200

Answers (1)

Exigente05
Exigente05

Reputation: 2211

Check out this,

TextView tvTextView;
String text = "YOUR LONG TEXT WILL BE HERE", subString = "",
int textViewWidth = 100;
int numChars;

tvTextView.setText(text);
DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displayMetrics);
textViewWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels; // you need to subtract paddings and margins if needed
Log.d("textview_width", "width " + textViewWidth + " length " + text.length());

Paint paint = tvTextView.getPaint();
for (numChars = 1; numChars <= text.length(); ++numChars) {
    if (paint.measureText(text, 0, numChars) >= textViewWidth) {

            break;
    }
}
subString = text.substring(text.length() + 1 - numChars, text.length());

    int dots = subString.split("\\.").length * 2;

    if(text.length() <= numChars - 1){

        subString = text;
    }
    else {

        subString = text.substring(text.length() + 1 + dots - numChars, text.length());
    }
    tvTextView.setText(subString);

Upvotes: 2

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