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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Auto layout - Auto scale textview

public static void autoScaleTextViewTextToHeight(TextView tv)
{
    final float initSize = tv.getTextSize();
    //get the width of the view's back image (unscaled).... 
    float minViewHeight;
    if(tv.getBackground()!=null)
    {
      minViewHeight = tv.getBackground().getIntrinsicHeight();
    }
    else
    {
      minViewHeight = 10f;//some min.
    }
    final float maxViewHeight = tv.getHeight() - (tv.getPaddingBottom()+tv.getPaddingTop())-12;// -12 just to be sure
    final String s = tv.getText().toString();

    //System.out.println(""+tv.getPaddingTop()+"/"+tv.getPaddingBottom());

    if(minViewHeight >0 && maxViewHeight >2)
    {
      Rect currentBounds = new Rect();
      tv.getPaint().getTextBounds(s, 0, s.length(), currentBounds);
      //System.out.println(""+initSize);
      //System.out.println(""+maxViewHeight);
      //System.out.println(""+(currentBounds.height()));

      float resultingSize = 1;
      while(currentBounds.height() < maxViewHeight)
      {
        resultingSize ++;
        tv.setTextSize(resultingSize);

        tv.getPaint().getTextBounds(s, 0, s.length(), currentBounds);
        //System.out.println(""+(currentBounds.height()+tv.getPaddingBottom()+tv.getPaddingTop()));
        //System.out.println("Resulting: "+resultingSize);
      }
      if(currentBounds.height()>=maxViewHeight)
      {
        //just to be sure, reduce the value
        tv.setTextSize(resultingSize-1);
      }
    }
}

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