Get the size of a text in TextView

Question

I have a problem placing a textView at specified center's x and y coordinates. Firstly, I tried to set the text in the textView, and to move the view with the width and the height of the view from this link.

But it doesn't work, and I'd like to try something else. I'd like to know if there is a method to get the size which a specified text will take in my textView? I mean, I know the text and the textSize, how can I get the width and the height my textView will take?

Something like the method (NSString)sizeWithFont; for those who know iPhone dev.

score 95 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 25 '16 at 12:08

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Rect bounds = new Rect();

textView.getPaint().getTextBounds(textView.getText().toString(), 0, textView.getText().length(), bounds);

bounds.width() will give you the accurate width of the text in the Text View.

edited Oct 25 '16 at 12:08

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answered May 28 '14 at 22:41

Midverse Engineer

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Like we love to say here: this should be the answer to the OP. The other answer is the usual old method to measure a view, not a string in a view. – Léon Pelletier Aug 08 '14 at 19:01
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pathView.getPaint().getTextBounds(pathView.getText().toString(), 0, pathView.getText().length(), bounds); – XurajB Dec 17 '14 at 01:38
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does this also works on height of multiline TextView? – Hendra Anggrian Dec 21 '16 at 11:27
is the result include padding? – ucMedia Oct 16 '19 at 14:50
well it's not accurate, I get two lines instead of one when I put text – user924 Mar 10 '20 at 14:23

score 67 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 30 '14 at 16:44

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If your textview is called TV

TV.setText("bla");
TV.measure(0, 0);       //must call measure!
TV.getMeasuredHeight(); //get height
TV.getMeasuredWidth();  //get width

More on this (updated): How to get width/height of a View

edited Dec 30 '14 at 16:44

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Sometimes this doesn't actually provide with an accurate measure, specially if you are using a listview – nunofmendes Feb 28 '13 at 11:22
@nunofmendes you are right. I have extended this topic: check http://www.sherif.mobi/2013/01/how-to-get-widthheight-of-view.html – Sherif elKhatib Feb 28 '13 at 12:34
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@MarceloFilho I dont know why it opens in places and breaks in others. You can try this http://sherifandroid.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-get-widthheight-of-view.html – Sherif elKhatib May 10 '14 at 09:09
If the text contains any lines that will wrap, you'll need to set the width of the MeasureSpec to AT_MOST to get an accurate height. Example code is here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20087258/462162 – arlomedia Nov 11 '14 at 21:04
Your updated link (http://www.sherif.mobi/2013/01/how-to-get-widthheight-of-view.html), is work like a charm. Thanks dude :) – Shailesh Nov 09 '16 at 14:05

score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 21 '16 at 13:44

For some reason the solution of Midverse Engineer does not give me always correct results (at least on some Android versions). The solution of Sherif elKhatib works, but has the side effect of changing MeasuredWidth and Height. This could lead to incorrect positioning of the textView.

My solution:

width = textView.getPaint().measureText(text);
metrics = textView.getPaint().getFontMetrics();
height = metrics.bottom - metrics.top;

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 16 '19 at 15:33

Using the TextView inner Paing class is not so hot when you have multiple lines of text and different paddings. So stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Use getMeasuredHeight and getMeasuredWidth methods after calling measure(UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED). Just don't forget to get the new values inside the post, otherwise mostly you'll get a wrong result.

tv.setText(state.s);
tv.measure(UNSPECIFIED,UNSPECIFIED);
tv.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
       Log.d("tv","Height = "+tv.getMeasuredHeight());
       Log.d("tv","Width  = "+tv.getMeasuredWidth());
    }
});

Get the size of a text in TextView

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