I have TextView which should accept max 6 characters. If value has more than 6, I want to show 3 dots at the end. Used these attributes to achieve that but it just simply cut text at the end without 3 dots.

 android:textAlignment="viewEnd"
 android:maxLines="1"
 android:maxLength="6"
 android:ellipsize="end"

CodePudding user response：

Cleanest and quickest way would be to do so programatically as otherwise you'd need to do hard calculations of the text size font alongside the TextView's width

This is the cheapest

textView.text = if(text.length > 6) text.take(6).append("…") else text