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