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Limit the Length of TextView [duplicate]

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Limit text length of EditText in Android

I am a textView on Activity, which is being displayed as per the parameter it is receiving from the JSON response, I need to restrict it to 12 characters
only.
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textViewName"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/includeheadersetting"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Name"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textStyle="bold" />

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Dipak Keshariya
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Oct 29 '12 at 11:04
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Oct 29 '12 at 11:14

marked as duplicate by Dharmendra, RivieraKid, BNL, Ted Hopp, Ahmad Oct 29 '12 at 15:10
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Use android:maxLength="12" for limit of text length

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textViewName"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/includeheadersetting"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Name"
android:maxLength="12"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textStyle="bold" />

You can also use other property like as

android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"

using this property "..." will be added end of the text like
"Hello How are ..." instead of "Hello How are you?"

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Niranj Patel
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Answered
Oct 29 '12 at 11:07

Edited
Oct 29 '12 at 11:13

line 1: "hello how are" line 2 :"you" instaed of hello how are you Prasad Oct 15 '14 at 13:04
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Generally speaking only including android:maxLength is not considered good idea.

Use maxLength attribute, then use the android:ellipsize="marquee" to add a "..." automatically to the end of any line that has been cut-off.
<TextView
android:id="@+id/txtView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLines="1"
android:maxLength="10"
android:ellipsize="marquee"/>

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Vipul Shah
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Oct 29 '12 at 11:09

Dipak Keshariya
14.4k 9 50 102

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Oct 29 '12 at 11:14

android:ellipsize="end" add a "..." not "marequee". stackoverflow.com/a/20511174/2469427 GeneralKimi Dec 18 '14 at 8:56
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add code like

android:maxLength="12"

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Devangi Desai
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Add android:maxLength="12" to your text view..

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Oct 29 '12 at 11:06

<TextView
android:id="@+id/textViewName"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/includeheadersetting"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Name"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:maxLength="12" />

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Nermeen
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Oct 29 '12 at 11:07

Add the following max length parameter to your text viewandroid:maxLength="12"

whatever the limit you want you can replace that like instead of 12 can give 14 or whatever length you want.

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Ravi
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Oct 29 '12 at 11:32

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