szn0212 / ellipsizetextview

The EllipsizeTextView extends TextView, support omit (Ellipsize/Ellipsis) redundant characters in multiple lines situtation.

EllipsizeTextView

The EllipsizeTextView offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to causing words in the text that are longer than the view is wide to be omitted instead of broken in the middle.

The EllipsizeTextView is powerful and flexible. You do not need to worry about the emoji truncated cause garbled, and you also do not need to worry about the text be affected by the class CharacterStyle and its subclass truncated cause unexpected result.

The EllipsizeTextView extends TextView, it supports multiple lines omit redundant characters, but the method {@link EllipsizeTextView#setMaxLines(int)} will be always needed to call. besides, you can call the method {@link EllipsizeTextView#setEllipsizeText(CharSequence, int)} to custom the content, style, and index(in the reverse order) of the ellipsis.

Preview

Installation

Add the following dependency to your build.gradle file:

    dependencies {
        compile 'com.dinuscxj:ellipsizetextview:1.0.0'
    }

Usage

You can specify the attributes from a layout XML like:

    <com.dinuscxj.ellipsize.EllipsizeTextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_ellipsize3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="16sp"
        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
        app:ellipsize_index="8"
        app:ellipsize_text="..."
        android:maxLines="2" />

Or from code like:

        mEllipsizeText.setMaxLines(2);
        mEllipsizeText.setEllipsizeText(ellipsizeText, 8);
        mEllipsizeText.setText(R.string.long_text);

License

Copyright 2015-2019 dinus

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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