android - Prevent word-break in a TextView

Question

I have a TextView with fixed width as follows:

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:textSize="12sp"
    tools:text="Health Department"
    android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
    android:maxLines="2"
    />

... But it appears like:

   |Health Dep-|
   |  artment  |

... While I want it to be:

   |  Health  |
   |Department|

What XML attribute can I use to do this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40853192/prevent-word-break-in-a-textview

Answer 1

From api 23 you can choose the break strategy and that should fix your issue.

By default android for TextView use BREAK_STRATEGY_HIGH_QUALITY and that is causing the words breaking using hyphens.

If you want to avoid that, you can set the break strategy to BREAK_STRATEGY_SIMPLE.

You can find more information in the api doc.

I hope that helps you.