What Does Ellipsize Mean in Android

What does ellipsize mean in android?

You can find documentation here.

Based on your requirement you can try according option.

to ellipsize, a neologism, means to shorten text using an ellipsis, i.e. three dots ... or more commonly ligature …, to stand in for the omitted bits.

Say original value pf text view is aaabbbccc and its fitting inside the view

start's output will be : ...bccc

end's output will be : aaab...

middle's output will be : aa...cc

marquee's output will be : aaabbbccc auto sliding from right to left

Meaning of the ellipsise options

See the below image to know how android:ellipsize works

I have used following xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="none" 
        android:singleLine="false" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="25dip" />

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="start" 
        android:singleLine="false" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="25dip" />

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="middle" 
        android:singleLine="false" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="25dip" />

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="end" 
        android:singleLine="false" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" 
        android:layout_marginBottom="25dip" />

    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:ellipsize="marquee" 
        android:text="Hi make this a very long string that wraps at least 4 lines, seriously make it really really long so it gets cut off at the fourth line not joke.  Just do it!" />

</LinearLayout>

Android - ellipsize=end Not Showing Three Dots

The problem is:

android:maxLength="24"

remove it since you want the TextView to be ellipsized.

A TextView gets ellipsized when it is not wide enough to show the whole text.
I think you do not understand what this attribute android:ellipsize="end" is all about.
If it is wide enough then you will not see any dots at the end because they are not needed.

If you set android:layout_width="40dp" then you will see the dots.

With android:layout_width="wrap_content" the TextView is wide enough and it is not ellipsized.

[Android]Meaning of value marquee of ellipsize attribute in TextView

refer this hope it may help

What does ellipsize mean in android?

Ellipsize text on basis of characters not words

Add below attrubute to your textview you will get expected result:

android:singleLine="true"

Weird behaviour of text view ellipsize

This is because you have android:maxLines="1". Inorder to support bigger text maxlines should be increased. If maxlines is set as 1, the textview cannot jump to next line even if the text is big

It will give better results if android:maxWidth="160dp" is removed

OR

Get rid of android:maxLines and use android:singleLine="true", see below

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/tvStyle"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:ellipsize="end"
    android:maxWidth="160dp"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:text="Style asd sad adas cvfvd dff dzxczx zc xcc x c"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

Ellipsize marquee/end

If you want to make your textview to scroll horizontally then ellipsize "marquee" will only work. Ellipsize "end" will help you to make your textview ellipsize with "..."

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