Fill each slot in a grid layout with fixed size text views whose size doesn't change with content

Question

Whenever i use "xyz.setText("blah blah")" the text view expands according to the size of the content.App is crashing constantly.please help (gridlayout=2X2)

<TextView
android:id="@+id/rowzcolz"
android:text="TextView"
android:gravity="fill"
app:layout_rowWeight="1"
android:textAlignment="center"
app:layout_columnWeight="1"/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/rowzcolo"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:text="TextView"
android:gravity="fill"
app:layout_rowWeight="1"
app:layout_columnWeight="1"/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/rowocolz"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:text="TextView"
android:gravity="fill"
app:layout_rowWeight="1"
app:layout_columnWeight="1" />
<TextView
 android:id="@+id/rowocolo"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:gravity="fill"
app:layout_rowWeight="1"
app:layout_columnWeight="1"
android:text="TextView"/>
</android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout>

Answer 1

Q: the text view expands according to the size of the content

A: Might occur if you have given the width as match_parent or wrap_content try giving a fixed width and setting maxLines to restrict the text. Specify the width and height apart from rowWeight.

Something that might help you to restrict the characters to maximum length called,

android:maxLength="5"

along with ellipsize ".." in the end.

android:ellipsize="end"

And if you want the characters to appear in two lines ,

android:maxLines="2"

And you might have to specify the width of the TextView for each instead of wrap_content or match_parent .

android:layout_width="80dp"