What does ellipsize mean in android

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I ve added an EditText to my layout  and added a hint  and made it centered horizontally   When running the application  the hint was invisible  I found that I should make ellipsize value of the TextView to be start    lt EditText     android id    id number1EditText      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android ellipsize  start      android ems  10      android gravity  center horizontal      android hint   string hint1    gt    In Android documentation  I read      If set  causes words that are longer than the view is wide to be   ellipsized instead of broken in the middle    The problem is that ellipsize is not found in the dictionary  Can anybody explain to me what benefits we can gain by ellipsize attribute  And what is the difference between start  end  middle

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Use ellipsize when you have fixed width  then it will automatically truncate the text  amp  show the ellipsis at end    it Won t work if you set layout width as wrap content  amp  match parent   android width  40dp  android ellipsize  end  android singleLine  true

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You can find documentation here   Based on your requirement you can try according option   to ellipsize  a neologism  means to shorten text using an ellipsis  i e  three dots     or more commonly ligature      to stand in for the omitted bits   Say original value pf text view is aaabbbccc and its fitting inside the view  start s output will be      bccc  end s output will be   aaab     middle s output will be   aa   cc  marquee s output will be   aaabbbccc auto sliding from right to left

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for my experience  Ellipsis works only if below two attributes are set   android ellipsize  end  android singleLine  true    for the width of textview  wrap content or match parent should both be good

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An ellipsis is three periods in a row      The TextView will use an ellipsis when it cannot expand to show all of its text  The attribute ellipsized sets the position of the three dots if it is necessary

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Text    This is my first android application and  I am trying to make a funny game   It seems android is really very easy to play    Suppose above is your text and if you are using ellipsize s start attribute it will seen like this   This is my first android application and    t seems android is really very easy to play    with end attribute   This is my first android application and  I am trying to make a funny game

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android ellipsize added in API Level 1  An ellipsis is three periods in a row          In your Xml   lt TextView                    android text  quot Hi I am Amiyo  you can see how to ellipse works  quot         android ellipsize    quot end quot         gt   At this point  the ellipsis will not display yet as a TextView is set to automatically expand on default when new text is entered  You will need to limit the TextView in some way  Do do this  you can use either add to your TextView a scrollHorizontally  minLines  or maxLines to have the ellipsis display  To make the ellipse      at the end  this is how it would         use  android ellipsize    quot end quot   And  in the middle   use  android ellipsize    quot middle quot   And  at the start   use  android ellipsize    quot start quot   And  to have no ellipse  use  android ellipsize    quot none quot   Note Please   Do not use android singeLine    quot true quot   it is deprecated  android maxLines    quot 1 quot  will not display the three dots       android lines    quot 1 quot  will not display the three dots        For more details you can visit here  http   developer android com reference android widget TextView html attr android 3aellipsize

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Set this property to edit text  Elipsize is working with disable edit text  android lines  1  android scrollHorizontally  true  android ellipsize  end  android singleLine  true  android editable  false    or setKeyListener null

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Note  your text must be larger than the container box for the following to marquee    android ellipsize  marquee

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here is an example on how ellipsize works without using deprecated android singleLine  true  in a ConstraintLayout    lt TextView    android layout width  0dp     android layout height  wrap content     android textSize  13sp     android ellipsize  end     android maxLines  2     app layout constraintEnd toEndOf  parent     app layout constraintStart toStartOf  parent     tools text  long long long long long long text text text    gt    remember if you have a text that is supposed to be in a single line  then change the maxLines to 1

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