How to wrap text in textview in Android

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Does any one know how to wrap text in TextView in Android platform  i e if the text in textview exceed the screen length it should be displayed in the second line   I have searched and tried the following   android scrollHorizontally  false   android inputType  textMultiLine   android singleLine  false    But none work    Can anyone suggest how can I do it

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Just was working on a TextView inside a layout inside a RecyclerView   I had text getting cut off  ex  for Read this message  I saw  Read this   I tried setting android maxLines  2  on the TextView  but nothing changed  However  android lines  2  resulted in Read this on first line and message on the 2nd

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This should fix your problem  android layout weight  1

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Use app breakStrategy  simple  in AppCompatTextView  it will control over paragraph layout    It has three constant values   balanced  high quality simple      Designing in your TextView xml    lt android support v7 widget AppCompatTextView         android id    id textquestion          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content          android gravity  center          android scrollHorizontally  false          android text  Your Question Display Hear    Your Question Display Hear    Your Question Display Hear    Your Question Display Hear              android textColor   android color black          android textSize  20sp          android textStyle  bold          app breakStrategy  simple    gt       If your current minimum api level is 23 or more then in Coding   yourtextview setBreakStrategy Layout BREAK STRATEGY SIMPLE     For more refrence refer this BreakStrategy

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You must use 2 parameters     android ellipsize  none    the text is not cut on textview width android scrollHorizontally  false  the text wraps on as many lines as necessary

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For me this issue only occurred on Android  lt  4 0  The combination of parameters I used were   android layout weight  1  android ellipsize  none  android maxLines  100  android scrollHorizontally  false    The maxLines count seemed to be the random final piece that made my TextView wrap

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You need to add your TextView in a ScrollView with something like this     lt ScrollView android id    id SCROLL VIEW    android layout height  150px     android layout width  fill parent  gt      lt TextView       android id    id TEXT VIEW        android layout height  wrap content        android layout width  wrap content        android text  This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header    gt      lt  ScrollView gt

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OK guys the truth is somewhere in the middle cause you have to see the issue from the parent s view and child s  The solution below works ONLY when spinner mode   dialog regardless of Android version  no problem there   tested it in VD and DesireS with Android   2 2       Set you spinner s the parent  mode like    android spinnerMode  dialog     Set the textview s child custom view  properties to    android layout weight  1    android ellipsize  none    android maxLines  100    android scrollHorizontally  false     I hope this works for you also

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All you have to do is to set your textview width   android layout width  60dp   you can change the width to your choice   Just type long sentence to check if it working like this  android text  i want to be among world class software engineer

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I am using Android 2 2 and my textview will automatically goto the next line if it exceeds the screen   If you would like to have the text goto the next line before the end of the screen  just add in  just put in your own dp value   This will be useful if you have a picture on the right of the text   android layout marginRight  52dp

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Constraint Layout   lt TextView android id    id some textview  android layout width  0dp  android layout height  wrap content   app layout constraintLeft toLeftOf   id textview above  app layout constraintRight toLeftOf   id button to right   gt     Ensure your layout width is zero left   right constraints are defined layout height of wrap content allows expansion up down   Set android maxLines  2  to prevent vertical expansion  2 is just an e g   Ellipses are prob  a good idea with max lines android ellipsize  end      0dp width allows left right constraints to determine how wide your widget is   Setting left right constraints sets the actual width of your widget  within which your text will wrap   Constraint Layout docs

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The trick is with the textView width  try to make it dedicated number like   lt TextView     android layout width  quot 300dp quot      android layout height  quot wrap content quot   gt   I ve tried many solutions without any result  I ve tried      android ellipsize  quot none quot      android scrollHorizontally  quot false quot   the only one thing triggred the wrap option is the dedicated width

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Strange enough - I created my TextView in Code and it wrapped - despite me not setting anything except standard stuff - but see for yourself   LinearLayout LayoutParams childParams   new LinearLayout LayoutParams LayoutParams FILL PARENT              LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT   childParams setMargins 5  5  5  5    Label label   new Label this   label setText  This is a testing label This is a testing label This is a testing label This is a testing labelThis is a testing label This is a testing label    label setLayoutParams childParams     As you can see from the params definition I am using a LinearLayout  The class Label simply extends TextView - not doing anything there except setting the font size and the font color   When running it in the emulator  API Level 9  it automatically wraps the text across 3 lines

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For the case where the TextView is inside a TableLayout  the solution is to set android shrinkColumns  1  on the TableLayout   Replace 1 with the column number the TextView you want to wrap is in   0-indexed    AFAICT  no other attributes are needed on the TextView   For other cases  see the other answers here   FWIW  I had initially gotten it to sort of work with    lt TextView    android id    id inventory text     android layout width  fill parent     android layout weight  1     android width  0dp    but that resulted in some extra empty space at the bottom of the Dialog it was all in

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I had the same problem  Following change made it work -  android layout width  wrap content    The ellipsis  maxLines  or layout weight - all didn t make any difference  Note - The parent width is also set as wrap content

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By setting android maxEms to a given value together with android layout weight  1  will cause the TextView to wrap once it reaches the given length of the ems

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Just set layout with to a definate size  when the text fills the maximum width it will overflow to the next line causing a wrap effect    lt TextView     android id    id segmentText      android layout marginTop  10dp      android layout below    id segmentHeader      android text  You have the option to record in one go or segments if you swap options      you will loose your current recordings       android layout width  300dp      android layout height  wrap content   gt

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Try  Guykun s approach  android layout weight  1  android ellipsize  none  android maxLines  100  android scrollHorizontally  false   Also  make sure that parents width is not set to wrap content  This is the thing that I was missing

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In Android Studio 2 2 3 under the inputType property there is a property called textMultiLine  Selecting this option sorted out a similar problem for me  I hope that helps

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