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I have a requirement to add some user feedback using standard Snackbar in Android.

I have noticed that if my text is too long then the whole text string disappears. Rather than have an ellipses...

More specifically; on a Pixel 2 emulator the following string disappears:

"You're offline. Check your connection and try again." - This is gone

but if I remove the last character then it shows:

"You're offline. Check your connection and try again" - This shows

Even worse is that on a device with a smaller screen the length of the text that will show is reduced meaning on a Nexus 5 emulator for example:

"You're offline. Check your connection and try again" - This now doesn't show

but if I shorten it further:

"You're offline. Check your connection" - This shows

This feels like a bug to me.

I understand that Snackbar should be for very short text but none the less it shouldn't remove the text arbitrarily. It should at least show some text or an ellipses or go multi-line.

Has anyone else noticed this or can suggest if it's a bug or am I missing something?

Code example:

Snackbar.make(findViewById(R.id.placeSnackBar),
 "You're offline. Check your connection and try again.",
 Snackbar.LENGTH_INDEFINITE)
 .setAction("X", View.OnClickListener ).show()

I also tried:

val sb = Snackbar.make(this, message, Snackbar.LENGTH_INDEFINITE)
 .setActionTextColor(Color.parseColor("#666666"))
 .setAction("X", View.OnClickListener )

sb.view.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE)
sb.view.findViewById<TextView>(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text)
 //.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#F44336"))
 .setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#000000"))
sb.view.findViewById<TextView>(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text)
 .singleLine = false
sb.view.findViewById<TextView>(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text)
 .maxLines = 2
sb.show()

XML for Coordinator layout which shows snackbar above floating footer layout:

<RelativeLayout
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="match_parent">

 <android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
 android:id="@+id/message_bar_container"
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="50dp"
 android:layout_above="@+id/llFooter" />

 <LinearLayout
 android:id="@+id/llFooter"
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="80dp"
 android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
 android:background="@drawable/footer_background"
 android:orientation="horizontal"
 android:paddingStart="20dp"
 android:paddingEnd="20dp">

 <TextView
 android:id="@+id/login_forgot_password"
 android:layout_width="0dp"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_gravity="center"
 android:layout_weight="1"
 ...
 />

 <Button
 android:id="@+id/btn_login"
 android:layout_width="0dp"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
...
 />

 </LinearLayout>

 </RelativeLayout>

How it looks with full string:

and if I shorten the string by 1 character:

Set your snackbar lines to 2 by accessing its TextView:

val message = "You're offline. Check your connection and try again.";
val sb = Snackbar.make(
 findViewById(R.id.newLinearLayout),
 "You're offline. Check your connection and try again.",
 Snackbar.LENGTH_INDEFINITE)
 .setAction("X") 
val view = sb.view
val textView = view.findViewById<View>(android.support.design.R.id.snackbar_text) as TextView
textView.maxLines = 2
sb.show()