Multiline TextView in Android?

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Multiline TextView in Android?

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I did like below in xml

<TableRow>
    <TextView android:id="@+id/address1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:singleLine="false"              
        android:text="Johar Mor, Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi" >
    </TextView> 
</TableRow>

It is not working for multiline, and I am using TableLayout...

so what is mistake I am doing here?

Chatar Veer Suthar

2017/02/16

Popular Answer

I just thought I'd add that if you use :

android:inputType="textMultiLine"

Then the view stops being clickable. I was trying to get multi line textviews in my slide-drawer menu which obviously needs to respond to clicks.

The android:singleLine="false" worked fine though.

Ryan

2019/05/04

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I like neither of the answers. Simply set the inputType and the TextView will adapt to its content

<TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:inputType="textMultiLine"/>

Tested on a Nexus One (2.3) and Nexus 4 (4.4)

Maragues

2013/12/05

Simply put '\n' inside your text... no extra attribute required :)

          <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
            android:text="Pigeon\nControl\nServices"
            android:id="@+id/textView5"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:paddingLeft="12dp"/>

Naunidh Singh

2015/08/08

Just add textview in ScrollView

<ScrollView
           android:layout_width="fill_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:layout_weight="1"
           android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
           android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
           android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
           android:fillViewport="true">

           <TextView
               android:id="@+id/txtquestion"
               android:layout_width="fill_parent"
               android:layout_height="match_parent"
               android:background="@drawable/abs__dialog_full_holo_light"
               android:lines="20"
               android:scrollHorizontally="false"
               android:scrollbars="vertical"
               android:textSize="15sp" />

       </ScrollView>

Pravin Bhosale

2014/07/01

I do not like the solution that forces the number of lines in the text view. I rather suggest you solve it via the solution proposed here. As I see the OP is also struggling with making text view look like proper in table and shrinkColumns is the correct directive to pass in to achieve what is wanted.

Boris Strandjev

2017/05/23

Try to work with EditText by make it unclickable and unfocusable, also you can display a scrollbar and delete the EditText's underbar.
Here is an example:

<EditText
android:id="@+id/my_edit_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_parent"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"                   <!-- multiline -->
android:clickable="false"                         <!-- unclickable -->
android:focusable="false"                         <!-- unfocusable -->
android:scrollbars="vertical"     <!-- enable scrolling vertically -->
android:background="@android:color/transparent"   <!-- hide the underbar of EditText -->
/>

Hope this helps :)

Khalil Meg

2017/10/28

Zarah · Accepted Answer · 4/27/2018 10:37:57 AM

If the text you're putting in the TextView is short, it will not automatically expand to four lines. If you want the TextView to always have four lines regardless of the length of the text in it, set the android:lines attribute:

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/address1"
    android:gravity="left"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:maxLines="4"
    android:lines="4"
    android:text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat."></TextView>

You can do this with TableRow, see below code

<TableRow >
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/tv_description_heading"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="left"
            android:padding="8dp"
            android:text="@string/rating_review"
            android:textColor="@color/black"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/tv_description"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="left"
            android:maxLines="4"`enter code here`
            android:padding="8dp"
            android:text="The food test was very good."
            android:textColor="@color/black"
            android:textColorHint="@color/hint_text_color" />
    </TableRow>