Is it possible to set the size of a TextView in characters?

Question

Android

I need to display a ListView whose elements are LinearLayouts with several nested objects, the first of which is a textView with a string whose maximum length does not exceed 12 characters. Is it possible to align listview lengths from different rows to the size that the maximum length row will take?

Answer 1

Yes, you can, the TextView has the "ems" property, respectively, you can specify minEms="12" and maxEms="12" and the width of the TextView will be 12 characters, regardless of the number of characters in it

Answer 2

No. Main reason: character size depends on font size. And all other dimensions are calculated using ordinary mathematics.
PS: I wrote nonsense. Artem_zin is right. Here is the description .