android - Scale text in a view to fit?

Question

I don't believe this exists, but wanted to double-check. I'd like to set a TextView's text size such that it would fit within a given width, single line. Example:

<LinearLayout
  layout_width="100dip"
  layout_height="50dip">

  <TextView
    layout_width="fill_parent"
    layout_height="wrap_content"
    textSize="fill" 
    text="fit me please!" />

</LinearLayout>

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the TextUtils.EllipsizeCallback. When the text gets ellipsized this callback is done by the textview. Here you can set text size smaller than the current.

EDIT : Otherwise you can use TextUtils.ellipsize this way

while (mText != TextUtils.ellipsize(mText, textPaint, other params)) { 
    textpaint.setTextSize(textpaint.getTextSize() - 1);
}