Android Multiline Snackbar

I'm trying to leverage new Snackbar from Android Design Support Library to display multiline snackbar, as shown in http://www.google.com/design/spec/components/snackbars-toasts.html#snackbars-toasts-specs:

import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar;

final String snack = "First line\nSecond line\nThird line";
Snackbar.make(mView, snack, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();

It displays only First line... on my Nexus 7. How to make it display all lines?

PS: I tried Toast and it displayed all lines.

Solution 1:

Just set the maxLines attribute of Snackbars Textview

View snackbarView = snackbar.getView();
TextView textView = (TextView) snackbarView.findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
textView.setMaxLines(5);  // show multiple line

If you're using the more recent "com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0"dependency, then you will use this: com.google.android.material.R.id.snackbar_text to access the Snackbar's TextView.

You can use even R.id.snackbar_text as well. it's work for me.

Solution 2:

One can override the predefined value used for that in values.xml of the app

<integer name="design_snackbar_text_max_lines">5</integer>

This value is used by Snackbar by default.

Solution 3:

Snackbar snackbar =  Snackbar.make(view, "Text",Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).setDuration(Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG);
View snackbarView = snackbar.getView();
TextView tv= (TextView) snackbarView.findViewById(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text);
tv.setMaxLines(3); 
snackbar.show();

Solution 4:

Here is my finding on this :

Android does support multiline snackbars but it has a max limit of 2 lines which matches the design guideline where it says that the height of multiline snack bar should be 80dp (almost 2 lines)

To verify this, i used the cheesesquare android sample project. If i use following string:

Snackbar.make(view, "Random Text \n When a second snackbar is triggered while the first is displayed", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
                        .setAction("Action", null).show();

In this case, i can see the multiline snack bar with the text of 2nd line, i.e. "When a second snackbar is triggered" but if i change this code to following implementation:

Snackbar.make(view, "Random Text \n When \n a second snackbar is triggered while the first is displayed", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
                        .setAction("Action", null).show();

I can only see the "Random Text\nWhen ...". This means that design library is intentionally forcing the textview to be of max 2 lines.

Solution 5:

With the Material Components Library you can define it using with the snackbarTextViewStyle attribute in the app theme:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.*">
  ...
  <item name="snackbarTextViewStyle">@style/snackbar_text</item>
</style>

<style name="snackbar_text" parent="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Snackbar.TextView">
    ...
    <item name="android:maxLines">5</item>
</style>

Note: it requires the version 1.2.0 of the library.