I use this in my layout xml file:

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

And this works perfectly for text on 1 line..

On Oct 20, 5:42 pm, Mark Wyszomierski <mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a normal TextView which has multiple lines. I set its max
> number of lines to 3. I'd like it to show an ellipsis at the end if
> the text is too long:
>
>   TextView tv = new TextView(context);
>   tv.setLines(tv);
>   tv.setText("some really long text...");
>
> I tried the set ellipsis calls but it doesn't seem to do anything -
> the text appears the same way. How do we get this to work?
>
> Thanks
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