I'm writing an apply that pops texts on the screen and usually it is longer than 1 line. If the last word of a line is too long to fit in it, textview would just put it at the beginning of the next line.
Is there a way to modify this behaviour? When the last word is a long one the results are horrible.
Basically I'd like to achieve something like this
|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consecte|
|tur adipiscing elit. Lorem ipsum dol |
|or sit amet, consectetur adipiscing |
|elit. |
Instead of what I'm getting now.
|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, |
|consectetur adipiscing elit. Lorem |
|ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur |
| adipiscing elit. |
Thank you!
ADDITIONAL INFO
I have this textview that displays random quotes that have different lengths. What I need is a way to split the last word of every line.
I'm looking for a way to do something like this!
Here is the layout xml
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/title" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/quote"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/quote" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="refresh"
android:text="@string/tellmemore" />
I decided to switch to a WebView because with HTML I'd have access to justification. You can read about it here and here and if you want to inject css this is a good tutorial.
If you are looking for hypenation maybe you can look into the Google's hypenator.js
So, to answer to myself here is the solution!
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FFFFD0" >
<WebView
android:id="@+id/webview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:onClick="refresh"
android:text="@string/tellmemore" />
and in the activity
...
WebView mWebView;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedIstanceState) {
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
super.onCreate(savedIstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.webview);
mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
load();}
public void load() {
// some other code to parse the string from a database
String text = "<html> <head>" + tokens[1].toString()"</head><body>" + "<p align=\"justify\">"+ tokens[0].toString() + "</p> " + "</body></html>";
mWebView.loadData(text, "text/html", "utf-8");}
Try this
private String getWidthFitString(String input) {
Paint paint = text.getPaint();
// you can define max width by yourself
int maxWidth = getContentMaxWidth();
float width = paint.measureText(input);
if (width > maxWidth) {
List<String> words = Arrays.asList(input.split("\\s"));
int breakLinePosition = 0;
String toBreakLineText;
List<String> toBreakLineWords = new ArrayList<>();
while (breakLinePosition < words.size()) {
toBreakLineWords.add(words.get(breakLinePosition));
toBreakLineText = TextUtils.join(" ", toBreakLineWords);
float currentWidth = paint.measureText(toBreakLineText);
if (currentWidth > maxWidth) {
break;
}
breakLinePosition ++;
}
if (breakLinePosition > 1) {
toBreakLineWords.remove(toBreakLineWords.size() - 1);
toBreakLineText = TextUtils.join(" ", toBreakLineWords);
List<String> fromBreakLineWords = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = breakLinePosition; i < words.size(); i++) {
fromBreakLineWords.add(words.get(i));
}
return toBreakLineText + "\n" + getWidthFitString(TextUtils.join(" ", fromBreakLineWords));
} else {
return input;
}
}
return input;
}
You can do that programatically. Just do:
myString.replace(" ", "\u00A0");
myTextView.setText(myString);
// trh this
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,consectetur adipiscing elit. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit."
android:gravity="clip_horizontal"/>
use android:maxLine = number of lines