How can I get the height and width values of View's text size in pixels?

Question

I need to get height and width of the textView's text. Yes there is a method called textView.getTextSize(), but I don't understand what that size means: a height, a width or something else? I need the exact width and height values (it will be good, if values will be in pixels not sp).

Answer 1

One approach could be with the use of getPaint() and getTextBound()

String text = (String) textView.getText();
Rect textBound = new Rect();
textView.getPaint().getTextBounds(text,0,text.length(),textBound);
int textHeight = textBound.height();
int textWidth = textBound.width();

I am not entirely sure of the height and width being in pixel. Based on this Q&A in regards to RectF, I believe Rect as well should use pixels.

Answer 2

getTextSize() returns the TextView's line height in pixels.

I think what you're looking for is textView.getLayout().getHeight() and textView.getLayout().getWidth(), although the Layout can be null if the TextView changed recently.

Answer 3

getTextSize() returns the size of the text set on the which is effectively the font size of the TextView, you can determine this by looking at the setTextSize method: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView#setTextSize(int,%20float)

To figure out the height/width of a TextView you could use:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View#getMeasuredHeight() https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View#getMeasuredWidth()

This is assuming that the view has been measured and laid out.

As for useful conversions that could be helpful here refer to: How to convert DP, PX, SP among each other, especially DP and SP?

Whenever unsure about what a method does, check the docs and also check other methods to figure out what it does, like you can figure out what getTextSize returns by looking at setTextSize.