Autosizing of TextView doesn't work (Android O)

Question

I use new autosize feature added in support library 26. I read a documentation which can be found here : https://developer.android.com/preview/features/autosizing-textview.html

I suppose that it should work this way: You can enable auto-sizing with this attribute: app:autoSizeTextType="uniform". I think that TextView should use all available space to display a whole text (not just a part - it shouldn't be cropped) and the textSize should be as big as possible. If you need to limit a maximum or minimum size of the text then you can use these two attributes:

app:autoSizeMinTextSize="XXsp" // (you can also use px or dp values.)

or

app:autoSizeMaxTextSize="XXsp"

So far so good. Let's say that I need a TextView with 56dp width. I have texts with a different length and I want to set these texts to this TextView. It should be automatically resized so it displays the whole text (all characters + not cropped) in the biggest possible textSize.

This is my TextView:

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView
        android:id="@+id/vName"
        style="@style/TextView.AutoSize"
        android:layout_width="56dp"
        android:gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"
        android:maxLines="1"
        app:autoSizeMinTextSize="1px"
        app:autoSizeTextType="uniform"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@id/vGuideline"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" />

Unfortunately, the text view is cropped. I wanted to set this String as a text to the TextView above: "Groupa" but this is the result:

(TextView is inside ConstraintLayout with yellow circle background.)

As you can see the textview is not resized at all. Do you have any idea what to do?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Additional to the other correct answers I found another point which prevents autosizing to work.

Do not use android:singleLine="true" together with autosizing. Use the newer android:maxLines="1" instead.