Check if textview is ellipsized in android

You can use this method provided: getEllipsisCount

Layout layout = textview1.getLayout();
if(layout != null) {
    int lines = layout.getLineCount();
    if(lines > 0) {
        int ellipsisCount = layout.getEllipsisCount(lines-1);
        if ( ellipsisCount > 0) {
            Log.d(TAG, "Text is ellipsized");
        } 
    } 
}

where line could be obtained via getLineCount()

Using getEllipsisCount wont work with text that has empty lines within it. I used the following code to make it work :

message.getViewTreeObserver().addOnPreDrawListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnPreDrawListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onPreDraw() {

            if(m.isEllipsized == -1) {
                Layout l = message.getLayout();
                if (message.getLineCount() > 5) {
                    m.isEllipsized = 1;
                    message.setMaxLines(5);
                    return false;
                } else {
                    m.isEllipsized = 0;
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
    });

Make sure not to set a maxLineCount in your XML. Then you can check for the lineCount in your code and if it is greater than a certain number, you can return false to cancel the drawing of the TextView and set the line count as well as a flag to save whether the textView is too long or not. The textview will draw again with the correct line count and you will know whether its ellipsized or not with the flag.

You can then use the isEllipsized flag to do whatever you require.

Well, the accepted solution does work but misses a few corner cases because it will only check the last line for ellipsized characters. If we have a TextView consisting of two lines and use TruncateAt.START to truncate the text at its beginning, the accepted answer will fail. :-/

Adding an ViewTreeObserver.OnPreDrawListener seems more like a really expensive overhead to me. So I made the following improvements to the code of the accepted answer:

/**
 * Checks if the text of the supplied {@link TextView} has been ellipsized.
 *
 * @param textView
 *         The {@link TextView} to check its text.
 *
 * @return {@code True} if the text of the supplied {@code textView} has been ellipsized.
 */
public static boolean isTextViewEllipsized(final TextView textView) {
    // Check if the supplied TextView is not null
    if (textView == null) {
        return false;
    }

    // Check if ellipsizing the text is enabled
    final TextUtils.TruncateAt truncateAt = textView.getEllipsize();
    if (truncateAt == null || TextUtils.TruncateAt.MARQUEE.equals(truncateAt)) {
        return false;
    }

    // Retrieve the layout in which the text is rendered
    final Layout layout = textView.getLayout();
    if (layout == null) {
        return false;
    }

    // Iterate all lines to search for ellipsized text
    for (int line = 0; line < layout.getLineCount(); ++line) {

        // Check if characters have been ellipsized away within this line of text
        if (layout.getEllipsisCount(line) > 0) {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

There is still room for improvement, though. But this method does suffice my use cases. Corrections and improvements are appreciated. :-)