android - How to get number of lines of TextView?

Question

I want to get the number of lines of a text view

textView.setText("Test line 1 Test line 2 Test line 3 Test line 4 Test line 5.............")

textView.getLineCount(); always returns zero

Then I have also tried:

ViewTreeObserver vto = this.textView.getViewTreeObserver();
vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {

    @Override
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        ViewTreeObserver obs = textView.getViewTreeObserver();
        obs.removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
        System.out.println(": " + textView.getLineCount());

    }
});

It returns the exact output.

But this works only for a static layout.

When I am inflating the layout dynamically this doesn't work anymore.

How could I find the number of line in a TextView?

Answer 1

I was able to get getLineCount() to not return 0 using a post, like this:

textview.setText(“Some text”);
textview.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        int lineCount = textview.getLineCount();
        // Use lineCount here
    }
});