Auto Scale TextView Text to Fit within Bounds
From June 2018 Android officially started supporting this feature for Android 4.0 (API level 14) and higher.
Check it out at: Autosizing TextViews
With Android 8.0 (API level 26) and higher:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:autoSizeTextType="uniform"
android:autoSizeMinTextSize="12sp"
android:autoSizeMaxTextSize="100sp"
android:autoSizeStepGranularity="2sp" />
Programmatically:
setAutoSizeTextTypeUniformWithConfiguration(int autoSizeMinTextSize, int autoSizeMaxTextSize,
int autoSizeStepGranularity, int unit)
textView.setAutoSizeTextTypeUniformWithConfiguration(
1, 17, 1, TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP);
Android versions prior to Android 8.0 (API level 26):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
app:autoSizeTextType="uniform"
app:autoSizeMinTextSize="12sp"
app:autoSizeMaxTextSize="100sp"
app:autoSizeStepGranularity="2sp" />
</LinearLayout>
Programmatically:
TextViewCompat.setAutoSizeTextTypeUniformWithConfiguration(
TextView textView, int autoSizeMinTextSize, int autoSizeMaxTextSize, int autoSizeStepGranularity, int unit)
TextViewCompat.setAutoSizeTextTypeUniformWithConfiguration(textView, 1, 17, 1,
TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP);
Attention: TextView must have layout_width="match_parent" or absolute size!
UPDATE: Following code also fulfills the requirement of an ideal AutoScaleTextView as described here : Auto-fit TextView for Android and is marked as winner.
UPDATE 2: Support of maxlines added, now works fine before API level 16.
Update 3: Support for android:drawableLeft, android:drawableRight, android:drawableTop and android:drawableBottom tags added, thanks to MartinH's simple fix here.
My requirements were little bit different. I needed an efficient way to adjust size because I was animating an integer from, may be 0 to ~4000 in TextView in 2 seconds and I wanted to adjust the size accordingly. My solution works bit differently. Here is what final result looks like:
and the code that produced it:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="16dp" >
<com.vj.widgets.AutoResizeTextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:ellipsize="none"
android:maxLines="2"
android:text="Auto Resized Text, max 2 lines"
android:textSize="100sp" /> <!-- maximum size -->
<com.vj.widgets.AutoResizeTextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:ellipsize="none"
android:gravity="center"
android:maxLines="1"
android:text="Auto Resized Text, max 1 line"
android:textSize="100sp" /> <!-- maximum size -->
<com.vj.widgets.AutoResizeTextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Auto Resized Text"
android:textSize="500sp" /> <!-- maximum size -->
</LinearLayout>
And finally the java code:
import android.annotation.TargetApi;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.graphics.RectF;
import android.os.Build;
import android.text.Layout.Alignment;
import android.text.StaticLayout;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.SparseIntArray;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class AutoResizeTextView extends TextView {
private interface SizeTester {
/**
*
* @param suggestedSize
* Size of text to be tested
* @param availableSpace
* available space in which text must fit
* @return an integer < 0 if after applying {@code suggestedSize} to
* text, it takes less space than {@code availableSpace}, > 0
* otherwise
*/
public int onTestSize(int suggestedSize, RectF availableSpace);
}
private RectF mTextRect = new RectF();
private RectF mAvailableSpaceRect;
private SparseIntArray mTextCachedSizes;
private TextPaint mPaint;
private float mMaxTextSize;
private float mSpacingMult = 1.0f;
private float mSpacingAdd = 0.0f;
private float mMinTextSize = 20;
private int mWidthLimit;
private static final int NO_LINE_LIMIT = -1;
private int mMaxLines;
private boolean mEnableSizeCache = true;
private boolean mInitiallized;
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context) {
super(context);
initialize();
}
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
initialize();
}
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
initialize();
}
private void initialize() {
mPaint = new TextPaint(getPaint());
mMaxTextSize = getTextSize();
mAvailableSpaceRect = new RectF();
mTextCachedSizes = new SparseIntArray();
if (mMaxLines == 0) {
// no value was assigned during construction
mMaxLines = NO_LINE_LIMIT;
}
mInitiallized = true;
}
@Override
public void setText(final CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
super.setText(text, type);
adjustTextSize(text.toString());
}
@Override
public void setTextSize(float size) {
mMaxTextSize = size;
mTextCachedSizes.clear();
adjustTextSize(getText().toString());
}
@Override
public void setMaxLines(int maxlines) {
super.setMaxLines(maxlines);
mMaxLines = maxlines;
reAdjust();
}
public int getMaxLines() {
return mMaxLines;
}
@Override
public void setSingleLine() {
super.setSingleLine();
mMaxLines = 1;
reAdjust();
}
@Override
public void setSingleLine(boolean singleLine) {
super.setSingleLine(singleLine);
if (singleLine) {
mMaxLines = 1;
} else {
mMaxLines = NO_LINE_LIMIT;
}
reAdjust();
}
@Override
public void setLines(int lines) {
super.setLines(lines);
mMaxLines = lines;
reAdjust();
}
@Override
public void setTextSize(int unit, float size) {
Context c = getContext();
Resources r;
if (c == null)
r = Resources.getSystem();
else
r = c.getResources();
mMaxTextSize = TypedValue.applyDimension(unit, size,
r.getDisplayMetrics());
mTextCachedSizes.clear();
adjustTextSize(getText().toString());
}
@Override
public void setLineSpacing(float add, float mult) {
super.setLineSpacing(add, mult);
mSpacingMult = mult;
mSpacingAdd = add;
}
/**
* Set the lower text size limit and invalidate the view
*
* @param minTextSize
*/
public void setMinTextSize(float minTextSize) {
mMinTextSize = minTextSize;
reAdjust();
}
private void reAdjust() {
adjustTextSize(getText().toString());
}
private void adjustTextSize(String string) {
if (!mInitiallized) {
return;
}
int startSize = (int) mMinTextSize;
int heightLimit = getMeasuredHeight() - getCompoundPaddingBottom()
- getCompoundPaddingTop();
mWidthLimit = getMeasuredWidth() - getCompoundPaddingLeft()
- getCompoundPaddingRight();
mAvailableSpaceRect.right = mWidthLimit;
mAvailableSpaceRect.bottom = heightLimit;
super.setTextSize(
TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX,
efficientTextSizeSearch(startSize, (int) mMaxTextSize,
mSizeTester, mAvailableSpaceRect));
}
private final SizeTester mSizeTester = new SizeTester() {
@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN)
@Override
public int onTestSize(int suggestedSize, RectF availableSPace) {
mPaint.setTextSize(suggestedSize);
String text = getText().toString();
boolean singleline = getMaxLines() == 1;
if (singleline) {
mTextRect.bottom = mPaint.getFontSpacing();
mTextRect.right = mPaint.measureText(text);
} else {
StaticLayout layout = new StaticLayout(text, mPaint,
mWidthLimit, Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, mSpacingMult,
mSpacingAdd, true);
// return early if we have more lines
if (getMaxLines() != NO_LINE_LIMIT
&& layout.getLineCount() > getMaxLines()) {
return 1;
}
mTextRect.bottom = layout.getHeight();
int maxWidth = -1;
for (int i = 0; i < layout.getLineCount(); i++) {
if (maxWidth < layout.getLineWidth(i)) {
maxWidth = (int) layout.getLineWidth(i);
}
}
mTextRect.right = maxWidth;
}
mTextRect.offsetTo(0, 0);
if (availableSPace.contains(mTextRect)) {
// may be too small, don't worry we will find the best match
return -1;
} else {
// too big
return 1;
}
}
};
/**
* Enables or disables size caching, enabling it will improve performance
* where you are animating a value inside TextView. This stores the font
* size against getText().length() Be careful though while enabling it as 0
* takes more space than 1 on some fonts and so on.
*
* @param enable
* enable font size caching
*/
public void enableSizeCache(boolean enable) {
mEnableSizeCache = enable;
mTextCachedSizes.clear();
adjustTextSize(getText().toString());
}
private int efficientTextSizeSearch(int start, int end,
SizeTester sizeTester, RectF availableSpace) {
if (!mEnableSizeCache) {
return binarySearch(start, end, sizeTester, availableSpace);
}
String text = getText().toString();
int key = text == null ? 0 : text.length();
int size = mTextCachedSizes.get(key);
if (size != 0) {
return size;
}
size = binarySearch(start, end, sizeTester, availableSpace);
mTextCachedSizes.put(key, size);
return size;
}
private static int binarySearch(int start, int end, SizeTester sizeTester,
RectF availableSpace) {
int lastBest = start;
int lo = start;
int hi = end - 1;
int mid = 0;
while (lo <= hi) {
mid = (lo + hi) >>> 1;
int midValCmp = sizeTester.onTestSize(mid, availableSpace);
if (midValCmp < 0) {
lastBest = lo;
lo = mid + 1;
} else if (midValCmp > 0) {
hi = mid - 1;
lastBest = hi;
} else {
return mid;
}
}
// make sure to return last best
// this is what should always be returned
return lastBest;
}
@Override
protected void onTextChanged(final CharSequence text, final int start,
final int before, final int after) {
super.onTextChanged(text, start, before, after);
reAdjust();
}
@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int width, int height, int oldwidth,
int oldheight) {
mTextCachedSizes.clear();
super.onSizeChanged(width, height, oldwidth, oldheight);
if (width != oldwidth || height != oldheight) {
reAdjust();
}
}
}
As a mobile developer, I was sad to find nothing native that supports auto resizing. My searches did not turn up anything that worked for me and in the end, I spent the better half of my weekend and created my own auto resize text view. I will post the code here and hopefully it will be useful for someone else.
This class uses a static layout with the text paint of the original text view to measure the height. From there, I step down by 2 font pixels and remeasure until I have a size that fits. At the end, if the text still does not fit, I append an ellipsis. I had requirements to animate the text and reuse views and this seems to work well on the devices I have and seems to run fast enough for me.
/**
* DO WHAT YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
* Version 2, December 2004
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]>
*
* Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
* copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
* as the name is changed.
*
* DO WHAT YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
* TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
*
* 0. You just DO WHAT YOU WANT TO.
*/
import android.content.Context;
import android.text.Layout.Alignment;
import android.text.StaticLayout;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.widget.TextView;
/**
* Text view that auto adjusts text size to fit within the view.
* If the text size equals the minimum text size and still does not
* fit, append with an ellipsis.
*
* @author Chase Colburn
* @since Apr 4, 2011
*/
public class AutoResizeTextView extends TextView {
// Minimum text size for this text view
public static final float MIN_TEXT_SIZE = 20;
// Interface for resize notifications
public interface OnTextResizeListener {
public void onTextResize(TextView textView, float oldSize, float newSize);
}
// Our ellipse string
private static final String mEllipsis = "...";
// Registered resize listener
private OnTextResizeListener mTextResizeListener;
// Flag for text and/or size changes to force a resize
private boolean mNeedsResize = false;
// Text size that is set from code. This acts as a starting point for resizing
private float mTextSize;
// Temporary upper bounds on the starting text size
private float mMaxTextSize = 0;
// Lower bounds for text size
private float mMinTextSize = MIN_TEXT_SIZE;
// Text view line spacing multiplier
private float mSpacingMult = 1.0f;
// Text view additional line spacing
private float mSpacingAdd = 0.0f;
// Add ellipsis to text that overflows at the smallest text size
private boolean mAddEllipsis = true;
// Default constructor override
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context) {
this(context, null);
}
// Default constructor when inflating from XML file
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
this(context, attrs, 0);
}
// Default constructor override
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
mTextSize = getTextSize();
}
/**
* When text changes, set the force resize flag to true and reset the text size.
*/
@Override
protected void onTextChanged(final CharSequence text, final int start, final int before, final int after) {
mNeedsResize = true;
// Since this view may be reused, it is good to reset the text size
resetTextSize();
}
/**
* If the text view size changed, set the force resize flag to true
*/
@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
if (w != oldw || h != oldh) {
mNeedsResize = true;
}
}
/**
* Register listener to receive resize notifications
* @param listener
*/
public void setOnResizeListener(OnTextResizeListener listener) {
mTextResizeListener = listener;
}
/**
* Override the set text size to update our internal reference values
*/
@Override
public void setTextSize(float size) {
super.setTextSize(size);
mTextSize = getTextSize();
}
/**
* Override the set text size to update our internal reference values
*/
@Override
public void setTextSize(int unit, float size) {
super.setTextSize(unit, size);
mTextSize = getTextSize();
}
/**
* Override the set line spacing to update our internal reference values
*/
@Override
public void setLineSpacing(float add, float mult) {
super.setLineSpacing(add, mult);
mSpacingMult = mult;
mSpacingAdd = add;
}
/**
* Set the upper text size limit and invalidate the view
* @param maxTextSize
*/
public void setMaxTextSize(float maxTextSize) {
mMaxTextSize = maxTextSize;
requestLayout();
invalidate();
}
/**
* Return upper text size limit
* @return
*/
public float getMaxTextSize() {
return mMaxTextSize;
}
/**
* Set the lower text size limit and invalidate the view
* @param minTextSize
*/
public void setMinTextSize(float minTextSize) {
mMinTextSize = minTextSize;
requestLayout();
invalidate();
}
/**
* Return lower text size limit
* @return
*/
public float getMinTextSize() {
return mMinTextSize;
}
/**
* Set flag to add ellipsis to text that overflows at the smallest text size
* @param addEllipsis
*/
public void setAddEllipsis(boolean addEllipsis) {
mAddEllipsis = addEllipsis;
}
/**
* Return flag to add ellipsis to text that overflows at the smallest text size
* @return
*/
public boolean getAddEllipsis() {
return mAddEllipsis;
}
/**
* Reset the text to the original size
*/
public void resetTextSize() {
if (mTextSize > 0) {
super.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, mTextSize);
mMaxTextSize = mTextSize;
}
}
/**
* Resize text after measuring
*/
@Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
if (changed || mNeedsResize) {
int widthLimit = (right - left) - getCompoundPaddingLeft() - getCompoundPaddingRight();
int heightLimit = (bottom - top) - getCompoundPaddingBottom() - getCompoundPaddingTop();
resizeText(widthLimit, heightLimit);
}
super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom);
}
/**
* Resize the text size with default width and height
*/
public void resizeText() {
int heightLimit = getHeight() - getPaddingBottom() - getPaddingTop();
int widthLimit = getWidth() - getPaddingLeft() - getPaddingRight();
resizeText(widthLimit, heightLimit);
}
/**
* Resize the text size with specified width and height
* @param width
* @param height
*/
public void resizeText(int width, int height) {
CharSequence text = getText();
// Do not resize if the view does not have dimensions or there is no text
if (text == null || text.length() == 0 || height <= 0 || width <= 0 || mTextSize == 0) {
return;
}
if (getTransformationMethod() != null) {
text = getTransformationMethod().getTransformation(text, this);
}
// Get the text view's paint object
TextPaint textPaint = getPaint();
// Store the current text size
float oldTextSize = textPaint.getTextSize();
// If there is a max text size set, use the lesser of that and the default text size
float targetTextSize = mMaxTextSize > 0 ? Math.min(mTextSize, mMaxTextSize) : mTextSize;
// Get the required text height
int textHeight = getTextHeight(text, textPaint, width, targetTextSize);
// Until we either fit within our text view or we had reached our min text size, incrementally try smaller sizes
while (textHeight > height && targetTextSize > mMinTextSize) {
targetTextSize = Math.max(targetTextSize - 2, mMinTextSize);
textHeight = getTextHeight(text, textPaint, width, targetTextSize);
}
// If we had reached our minimum text size and still don't fit, append an ellipsis
if (mAddEllipsis && targetTextSize == mMinTextSize && textHeight > height) {
// Draw using a static layout
// modified: use a copy of TextPaint for measuring
TextPaint paint = new TextPaint(textPaint);
// Draw using a static layout
StaticLayout layout = new StaticLayout(text, paint, width, Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, mSpacingMult, mSpacingAdd, false);
// Check that we have a least one line of rendered text
if (layout.getLineCount() > 0) {
// Since the line at the specific vertical position would be cut off,
// we must trim up to the previous line
int lastLine = layout.getLineForVertical(height) - 1;
// If the text would not even fit on a single line, clear it
if (lastLine < 0) {
setText("");
}
// Otherwise, trim to the previous line and add an ellipsis
else {
int start = layout.getLineStart(lastLine);
int end = layout.getLineEnd(lastLine);
float lineWidth = layout.getLineWidth(lastLine);
float ellipseWidth = textPaint.measureText(mEllipsis);
// Trim characters off until we have enough room to draw the ellipsis
while (width < lineWidth + ellipseWidth) {
lineWidth = textPaint.measureText(text.subSequence(start, --end + 1).toString());
}
setText(text.subSequence(0, end) + mEllipsis);
}
}
}
// Some devices try to auto adjust line spacing, so force default line spacing
// and invalidate the layout as a side effect
setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_PX, targetTextSize);
setLineSpacing(mSpacingAdd, mSpacingMult);
// Notify the listener if registered
if (mTextResizeListener != null) {
mTextResizeListener.onTextResize(this, oldTextSize, targetTextSize);
}
// Reset force resize flag
mNeedsResize = false;
}
// Set the text size of the text paint object and use a static layout to render text off screen before measuring
private int getTextHeight(CharSequence source, TextPaint paint, int width, float textSize) {
// modified: make a copy of the original TextPaint object for measuring
// (apparently the object gets modified while measuring, see also the
// docs for TextView.getPaint() (which states to access it read-only)
TextPaint paintCopy = new TextPaint(paint);
// Update the text paint object
paintCopy.setTextSize(textSize);
// Measure using a static layout
StaticLayout layout = new StaticLayout(source, paintCopy, width, Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, mSpacingMult, mSpacingAdd, true);
return layout.getHeight();
}
}
Warning. There is an important fixed bug affecting Android 3.1 - 4.04 causing all AutoResizingTextView widgets not to work. Please read: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21851157/2075875