TextView Marquee not working [duplicate]

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I have tried to use marquee and its not working here is my code, please let me know where im going wrong

<TextView
   android:text="lunch 20.00 | Dinner 60.00 | Travel 60.00 | Doctor 5000.00 | lunch 20.00 | Dinner 60.00 | Travel 60.00 | Doctor 5000.00"
   android:id="@+id/TextView02"
   android:layout_width="200dip"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
   android:ellipsize="marquee"
   android:singleLine="true"
   android:focusable="true"
   android:inputType="text"
   android:maxLines="1">
</TextView>

i am using android SDK 2.0.1

Answer 1

I had gone through this situation where textview marquee was not working. However follow this and I am sure it will work. :)

<TextView
         android:id="@+id/tv_marquee"
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:ellipsize="marquee"
         android:focusable="true"
         android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
         android:freezesText="true"
         android:maxLines="1"
         android:scrollHorizontally="true"
         android:text="This is a sample code of marquee and it works"/>

and programmatically add these 2 lines...

tvMarquee.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
tvMarquee.setSelected(true);

tvMarquee.setSelected(true) is required incase if any one of the view is already focused and setSelected will make it work. No need to use.

android:singleLine="true"

it is deprecated and above codes works.

Answer 2

I have created a custom class AlwaysMarqueTextView

public class AlwaysMarqueeTextView extends TextView
{
    protected boolean a;

    public AlwaysMarqueeTextView(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
        a = false;
    }

    public AlwaysMarqueeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attributeset)
    {
        super(context, attributeset);
        a = false;
    }

    public AlwaysMarqueeTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attributeset, int i)
    {
        super(context, attributeset, i);
        a = false;
    }

    public boolean isFocused()
    {
        return a || super.isFocused();
    }

    public void setAlwaysMarquee(boolean flag)
    {
        setSelected(flag);
        setSingleLine(flag);
        if(flag)
        setEllipsize(TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
        a = flag;
    }

    @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);
    }
}

And you can startMarquee when desire.. like

//textView.setSelected(true); No need of Selection..
textview.setAlwaysMarquee(true); 

Answer 3

Yes, marquee_forever also work in case of fixed width for TextView. (e.g. android:layout_width="120dp")

Must required attributes are:

1. android:focusable="true"
2. android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
3. android:singleLine="true" // if it's missing text appear in multiple line.

Working code:

<TextView
                android:id="@+id/mediaTitleTV"
                android:layout_width="220dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:ellipsize="marquee"
                android:focusable="true"
                android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
                android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:text="Try Marquee, it works with fixed size textview smoothly!" />

Answer 4

These attributes must be included in the textview tag in order to allow scrolling.

Everything else is optional.

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:ellipsize="marquee"

Answer 5

I'm working with minSDK=14 and was curious what set of these variations would work. I ended up with:

android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
android:singleLine="true"

in addition to other formatting stuff. I didn't need scrollHoriontally, focusable, or focusableInTouchMode.

This set did require a call to

setSelected(true)

What I find interesting is that singleLine has allegedly been deprecated, with a recommendation to replace it with maxLines = 1. Except - when I do that, that change alone stops the text from scrolling. One would hope that when singleLine eventually bites the dust, that all its current behavior will be triggered by maxLines...

Answer 6

android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"

are the only required attributes and scrolling even works with layout_weight defined with layout_width=0dp

here is some sample code:

<TextView 
            android:id="@+id/scroller"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:ellipsize="marquee"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:text="Some veryyyyy long text with all the characters that cannot fit in screen, it so sad :( that I will not scroll"
            android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
            android:layout_weight="3"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            />

But what is most important is implicitely or explicitely TextView should get selected.

You can do this with:

TextView txtView=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.scroller);
txtView.setSelected(true);