Get the size of a text in TextView

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I have a problem placing a textView at specified center's x and y coordinates. Firstly, I tried to set the text in the textView, and to move the view with the width and the height of the view from this link.

But it doesn't work, and I'd like to try something else. I'd like to know if there is a method to get the size which a specified text will take in my textView? I mean, I know the text and the textSize, how can I get the width and the height my textView will take?

Something like the method (NSString)sizeWithFont; for those who know iPhone dev.

android-layout text-size textview android
4 Answers

Using the TextView inner Paing class is not so hot when you have multiple lines of text and different paddings. So stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Use getMeasuredHeight and getMeasuredWidth methods after calling measure(UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED). Just don't forget to get the new values inside the post, otherwise mostly you'll get a wrong result.

tv.setText(state.s);
tv.measure(UNSPECIFIED,UNSPECIFIED);
tv.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
       Log.d("tv","Height = "+tv.getMeasuredHeight());
       Log.d("tv","Width  = "+tv.getMeasuredWidth());
    }
});
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