Marquee text in Android

Question

How can I use marquee text in an android application?

Answer 1

android:ellipsize="marquee"

This only works when your TextView has the focus.

Answer 2

As well as the XML settings identified by droidgren, my tests have shown that if the text you want to display is shorter than the width of the textview, then the marquee won't scroll at all. Possible solutions are to set the width of the view to a size smaller than the length of the text, or to concatenate the string to itself 2 or 3 times, with perhaps appropriate whitespace in-between so that the scrolling looks ok.

Answer 3

Xml code

 <TextView
            android:id="@+id/txtTicker"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:ellipsize="marquee"
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:freezesText="true"
            android:gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
            android:paddingLeft="5dip"
            android:paddingRight="5dip"
            android:scrollHorizontally="true"
            android:shadowColor="#FF0000"
            android:shadowDx="1.5"
            android:shadowDy="1.3"
            android:shadowRadius="1.6"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:textSize="20sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" >
        </TextView>

Java

txtEventName.setSelected(true);

if text is small then add space before and after text

txtEventName.setText("\t \t \t \t \t \t"+eventName+"\t \t \t \t \t \t");