Find if ellipsis is shown in TextView

Many times we need to know if my textview has shown ellipsis or not and if yes add “Show more” button/link next to it to expand and show entire data.

Below is a util method which will do the trick.

private boolean hasEllipsis(View view) {
    final TextView description = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.details_text_view);
    if (description == null) {
        return false;
    }
     boolean hasLongContent = false;
    Layout descriptionLayout = description.getLayout();
    if (descriptionLayout != null) {
        int lines = descriptionLayout.getLineCount();
        if (lines > 0) {
            if (descriptionLayout.getEllipsisCount(lines - 1) > 0) {
                hasLongContent = true;

            } else {
                hasLongContent = false;

            }
        }
    }

    return hasLongContent;
}