Android framework provides no support for creating a TextView that can fit its content to its size.
There are some libraries out there that try to solve this problem, like:
But no one of them seems to work in every situation. Looking into stackoverflow I’ve come to this post which seems to hold the best working answer that I’ve tried.
Except when I’ve tried to use it when textAllCaps=“true”. The solution to this issue has already been reported in one of the comments. So I put up all together, and the result is the following AutoResizeTextView implementation:
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.text.method.TransformationMethod;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.SparseIntArray;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class AutoResizeTextView extends TextView {
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context) {
super(context);
initialize();
}
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
initialize();
}
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
initialize();
}
@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
public AutoResizeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
initialize();
}
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 mInitializedDimens;
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;
}
}
@Override
public void setTextSize(float size) {
mMaxTextSize = size;
mTextCachedSizes.clear();
adjustTextSize();
}
@Override
public void setMaxLines(int maxlines) {
super.setMaxLines(maxlines);
mMaxLines = maxlines;
adjustTextSize();
}
public int getMaxLines() {
return mMaxLines;
}
@Override
public void setSingleLine() {
super.setSingleLine();
mMaxLines = 1;
adjustTextSize();
}
@Override
public void setSingleLine(boolean singleLine) {
super.setSingleLine(singleLine);
if (singleLine) {
mMaxLines = 1;
} else {
mMaxLines = NO_LINE_LIMIT;
}
adjustTextSize();
}
@Override
public void setLines(int lines) {
super.setLines(lines);
mMaxLines = lines;
adjustTextSize();
}
@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();
}
@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;
adjustTextSize();
}
private void adjustTextSize() {
if (!mInitializedDimens) {
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 = getTransformedText();
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();
}
private int efficientTextSizeSearch(int start, int end,
SizeTester sizeTester, RectF availableSpace) {
if (!mEnableSizeCache) {
return binarySearch(start, end, sizeTester, availableSpace);
}
int key = getText().toString().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;
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);
adjustTextSize();
}
@Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int width, int height, int oldwidth,
int oldheight) {
mInitializedDimens = true;
mTextCachedSizes.clear();
super.onSizeChanged(width, height, oldwidth, oldheight);
if (width != oldwidth || height != oldheight) {
adjustTextSize();
}
}
private String getTransformedText() {
CharSequence text = getText();
if (text != null) {
TransformationMethod transformationMethod = getTransformationMethod();
if (transformationMethod != null) {
text = transformationMethod.getTransformation(text, this);
}
}
return text == null ? null : text.toString();
}
}