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92 questions linked to/from Making TextView scrollable on Android
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Android:Textview with vertical scrolling text [duplicate]
I am finding a tough time setting the textview with vertical scrolling text. In my dialog I have a textview with large text, since dialog is small window I want the textview text to scroll the ...
-1 votes
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How to make a textview scroll vertically? [duplicate]
I have textview that include a large text and fill the parent layout.but i don't want to use Scrollview and i want to change the textview properties. How Can I scroll the textview Vertically?
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How to make a TextView scrollable, without using ScrollView? [duplicate]
I need to implement a custom View object, which extends the TextView and supports pinch zooming and scrolling of zoomed the text. Android documentation says that the TextView class can take care of ...
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scrollbars="vertical" is not working in TextView [duplicate]
Scrollbar is showing but not working or scrolling as shown in image below XML: <TextView android:id="@+id/text_view_dialog_notes" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:...
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How to add scrollview to my xml? [duplicate]
Hello i made a listview which on itemclick it brings me to another activity to read a bunch of text but i have a problem. If i add a long text in appdata.java im not able to see all of it because i ...
0 votes
0 answers
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Android vertical scrolling doesn't work [duplicate]
A TextView field is supposed to scroll vertically. It doesn't. Why not? Also tried attaching a vertical scrollbar -- it pops up briefly, then disappears, and still no scrolling. A real pain for a ...
-1 votes
1 answer
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I can not go to bottom of my android activity [duplicate]
I can not go to the boottom of my activity. If I want to read all text or go to rating bar or button i cant. I think the problem is in xml format or something in xml file. Do you know where is the ...
61 votes
15 answers
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auto-scrolling TextView in android to bring text into view
I have a TextView that I'm dynamically adding text to. in my main.xml file I have the properties set to make my max lines 19 and scrollbars vertical. in the .java file I am using textview....
38 votes
9 answers
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How can I make a TextView automatically scroll as I add more lines of text?
So, I have a TextView like so: <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="140.7dp" android:id="@+id/terminalOutput" android:layout_marginBottom="0.0dp" ...
25 votes
1 answer
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Android TextView with scrollbars and maxHeight
I need to set the TextView maximum height (either using maxHeight or maxLines). And if there are more lines of text the scrollbars should be shown. What markup should I use for this? Initial idea was ...
7 votes
4 answers
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Android EditText Vertical Scrolling Problem
I'm using an EditText of some predefined size, however when a user enters more text then fits in the text box, they aren't able to scroll the text with touch. Scrolling does work with a trackball. ...
4 votes
3 answers
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Android TextView Scrollable
I have a textView which size is 16 characters, if it exceeds 16 characters I want to make it scrollable to the user to view remaining characters. Could any one help me? I have tried this link Making ...
2 votes
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android - how to make a textview scroll?
Actually im showing some data in a textview but its half of the data is going out of the screen so i need help to make a textview scroll or any other thing that can scroll down the screen. Any help ...
4 votes
4 answers
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Is it possible to add a scrollable TextView to a ListView?
I have a ListView where each row has a fixed height. Every row contains, next to some images, a TextView. Sometimes, the text I want to display is too large and hence I would like to make it ...
10 votes
4 answers
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Scrollable TextView doesn't allow to select text after the application is paused
I have a scrollable TextView where a user can select text. I add scroll bar by setting movement method to ScrollingMovementMethod. Problem: Selection works well unless the application is paused (for ...