I have a TextView that displays text that changes and run time. I want to use the View.getLineCount() method to see how many lines the TextView takes up and do different functions accordingly. The problem is I need to determine the number of lines the TextView takes up in the same method that needs to know how many line it takes up. I have tried calling View.invalidate() in between the two calls but that hasn't seemed to fix anything. I would like to measure the number of lines without rendering the view if possible but if I have to render it I would be open to doing that as well. Let me know if this is not specific enough and I will try to be more specific. Thanks!