Making TextView scrollable on Android

Question

I am displaying text in a textview that appears to be too long to fit into one screen. I need to make my TextView scrollable. How can I do that?

Here is the code:

final TextView tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.splash);
tv.setTypeface(face);
tv.setTextSize(18);
tv.setTextColor(R.color.BROWN);
tv.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL| Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL);
tv.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent e) {
        Random r = new Random();
        int i = r.nextInt(101);
        if (e.getAction() == e.ACTION_DOWN) {
            tv.setText(tips[i]);
            tv.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.inner);
        }
        return true;
    }
});
setContentView(tv);

Answer 1

The code below creates an automatic horizontal scrolling textview:

While adding TextView to xml use

<TextView android:maxLines="1" 
          android:ellipsize="marquee"
          android:scrollHorizontally="true"/>

Set the following properties of TextView in onCreate()

tv.setSelected(true);
tv.setHorizontallyScrolling(true); 

Answer 2

It is not necessary to put in

android:Maxlines="AN_INTEGER"`

You can do your work by simply adding:

android:scrollbars = "vertical"

And, put this code in your Java class:

textview.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());

Answer 3

This will provide smooth scrolling text with a scroll bar.

ScrollView scroller = new ScrollView(this);
TextView tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setText(R.string.my_text);
scroller.addView(tv);

Answer 4

If you don't want to use the EditText solution then you might have better luck with:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.yourLayout);
    (TextView)findViewById(R.id.yourTextViewId).setMovementMethod(ArrowKeyMovementMethod.getInstance());
}

Answer 5

XML - You can use android:scrollHorizontally Attribute

Whether the text is allowed to be wider than the view (and therefore can be scrolled horizontally).

May be a boolean value, such as "true" or "false".

Prigramacaly - setHorizontallyScrolling(boolean)

Answer 6

If you want text to be scrolled within the textview, then you can follow the following:

First you should have to subclass textview.

And then use that.

Following is an example of a subclassed textview.

public class AutoScrollableTextView extends TextView {

    public AutoScrollableTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        setEllipsize(TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
        setMarqueeRepeatLimit(-1);
        setSingleLine();
        setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
    }

    public AutoScrollableTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        setEllipsize(TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
        setMarqueeRepeatLimit(-1);
        setSingleLine();
        setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
    }

    public AutoScrollableTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        setEllipsize(TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
        setMarqueeRepeatLimit(-1);
        setSingleLine();
        setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onFocusChanged(boolean focused, int direction, Rect previouslyFocusedRect) {
        if(focused)
            super.onFocusChanged(focused, direction, previouslyFocusedRect);
    }

    @Override
    public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean focused) {
        if(focused)
            super.onWindowFocusChanged(focused);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isFocused() {
        return true;
    }
}

Now, you have to use that in the XML in this way:

 <com.yourpackagename.AutoScrollableTextView
     android:layout_width="fill_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:text="This is very very long text to be scrolled"
 />

That's it.