TextViewOverflowing

TextViewOverflowing is a custom android view that allows reflowing from one TextView to another. (a la Windows 8 XAML)

Setup

1. Grab TextViewOverflowing.java and add that to your project (found under *app\src\main\java\net\justinangel\textoverflowexample* in this repository)

2. Add a TextViewOverflowing and TextView to your UI.

      <net.justinangel.textoverflowexample.TextViewOverflowing
       android:text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse id elit tempus, semper elit et, faucibus leo. Suspendisse urna urna, ornare in rutrum et, rhoncus sed risus."
       android:id="@+id/TextViewOverflowing" />
      <TextView android:text="I'm overflow text placeholder"
        android:id="@+id/overflowTextView" />
   

3. Hookup the TextViewOverflowing to your overflow TextView.

     TextViewOverflowing textViewOverflowing = (TextViewOverflowing) findViewById(R.id.TextViewOverflowing);
     textViewOverflowing.setOverflowTextViewId(R.id.overflowTextView);
   

4. Run! Whenever TextViewOverflowing is partially hidden the remainder of the text should show up in your overflow TextView.

More options

• It's possible to manually reflow text by registering to TextViewOverflowing.setOverflowTextListener.

      textViewOverflowing.setOverflowTextListener(new TextViewOverflowing.OverflowTextListener() {
        @Override
        public void overflowTextCalculated(String overflowText) {
            textViewOverflowing.setOverflowTextListener(null);
            overflowTextView.setText(overflowText);
        }
     });
  

• It's possible to chain reflow text between multiple TextViewOverflowing.

License

Do whatever you'd like with this code. ("MIT license")

Me

• @JustinAngel
• JustinAngel.net