First of all: Many thanks for this very useful implementation of a vertical text view. I'm using it for a personal project as a label for my charts.

But I got the following problem:
If I dynamically change the text of the view programmatically to a text which is longer than the one before, the new text will not be displayed correctly (it will basically be cut of or squeezed). Therefore I also overwrite setText in my project:

 public void setText(String text) {
        super.setText(text);       
        requestLayout();
        // redraw view with new layout
        invalidate();
    }

I don't know if this is the right way to do it, but in my case it worked.
Also I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post such stuff, but I hope this might be helpfull for others.

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I try three lines in vertical text view and then it's visibility gone i used "\n" for new line.

I'm trying to show a RecyclerView(orientation - vertical) with each item as VerticalTextView (direction- down to top) but the items are not showing up.
I replaced the VerticalTextView with TextView, then it was showing.

How can I achieve this?