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@nativescript/auto-fit-text

A plugin that extends the Nativescript Label with the functionality to adjust the font size according to the label's width.

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Installation

cli
npm install @nativescript/auto-fit-text

Use @nativescript/auto-fit-text

The following are examples of how to use the @nativescript/auto-fit-text plugin in different JS flavors.

Core

  1. Register the plugin namespace with Page's xmlns attribute providing your prefix( AFT, for example).
xml
<Page xmlns:AFT="@nativescript/auto-fit-text">
...
  1. Use the prefix to access the AutoFitText view.
xml
<StackLayout class="p-20">
  <AFT:AutoFitText
    text="Testinggggggggggggggggg"
    textWrap="false"
  ></AFT:AutoFitText>
</StackLayout>

The following is the complete code that results from the preceding steps:

xml
<Page
  xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd"
  loaded="pageLoaded"
  class="page"
  xmlns:AFT="@nativescript/auto-fit-text"
>
  <StackLayout class="p-20">
    <AFT:AutoFitText
      text="Testinggggggggggggggggg"
      textWrap="false"
    ></AFT:AutoFitText>
  </StackLayout>
</Page>

Angular

  1. Register the view by adding the plugin's module to the NgModule where you want to use the view.
typescript
import { NativeScriptAutoFitTextModule } from '@nativescript/auto-fit-text/angular';

@NgModule({
	imports: [NativeScriptAutoFitTextModule],
})
  1. Use the view in HTML.
xml
<AutoFitText row="2" fontSize="48" text="Lorem Ipsum this line of text with fontSize ignored because the text is so long." textWrap="false"></AutoFitText>

Vue

  1. Use the registerElement() function to register the AutoFitText view in the app.ts file.
ts
import { registerElement } from 'nativescript-vue'

registerElement(
  'AutoFitText',
  () => require('@nativescript/auto-fit-text').AutoFitText
)
  1. Use the view in markup.
vue
<AutoFitText
  fontSize="48"
  text="Lorem Ipsum this line of text with fontSize ignored because the text is so long."
/>

Svelte

  1. Use the registerNativeViewElement() function to register the AutoFitText view in the app.ts file.
ts
import { registerNativeViewElement } from 'svelte-native/dom'

registerNativeViewElement(
  'autoFitText',
  () => require('@nativescript/auto-fit-text').AutoFitText
)
  1. Use the view in a markup of any component.
svelte
<autoFitText fontSize="48" text="Lorem Ipsum this line of text with fontSize ignored because the text is so long." />

Credits

@grantland - android-autofittextview

License

Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004

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