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Question

I am using Android Studio.I want to use "View More" after some letters in a textview. I have searched for it and it shows how to add "View More" after a specific number of lines but I want to add it after a specific number of letters. Can anybody suggest what should I do?

Answer 1

As far as I understand your problem

Suppose you have a String

String name="Rajdev Stack overflow"

name has 21 characters/letters(including spaces).

If you want to show only upto 10 charchters and then view more, you can trim this String upto first 10 characters.

String trimmedName = name.substring(0, Math.min(name.length(), 10));

Now trimmedName contains only upto 10 characters. Now you can do:

trimmedName+"... view more";

so the user will see 10 characters and then view more

Rajdev Sta... view more