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92 questions linked to/from Making TextView scrollable on Android
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TextView can scroll but scrollbar is not shown
I have a TabHost with several tabs, which content is defined as a FrameLayout, which wraps a TextView, each one of them having a lot of text, more than it can be shown within the screen layout, so I ...
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How to create scrollable Textview in android
I had a requirement where I need to create a scrollable textview in android. for Example I had a a long Text that needs to displayed in TextView. Initially it should show part of Text with a ...
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Action Bar Sherlock List Navigation Spinner: item width marquee?
I use Action Bar Sherlock library to add an action bar to my layout. I set the navigation mode to ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST and use a custom adapter to populate the navigation spinner. the ...
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How do you display a large amount of text in an Android layout?
I need to display a Terms and Conditions pdf in a layout. It is not essential for the actual PDF to be displayed. That is, I just need the text within the pdf to be displayed correctly, in paragraphs. ...
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Scrolling Text inside ScrollView not working
I have a ScrollView inside which i have some fields and in between i have an TextView containing lengthy text. So i want scrollable TextView by which user can scroll whole form as well as the text ...
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Android autoscrolling text view
I would like to implement a auto scrolling text view in a native Android app. Something like a vertically scrolling marquee. The idea being that it looks something similar to an autocue, the text ...
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android - TextView getting scrollbar to always show programatically
I am dynamiclly creating a View which contains an image and a TextView this is then being added to a ViewFlipper. This is all working as it should the issue is I require the scrollbar to always be ...
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TextView is not Displayed until VideoView start playing
I wrote an android application which has to two views, VideoView above TextView(which is inside a ScrollView), I met a problem that until the VideoView starts playing a video, the TextView is not ...
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add a scrollView to Textview
i have the following layout in xml <Relativelayout..... <TextView 1........../> <ImageView........./> <Textview 2......../> </Relativelayout> I need ...
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TextView in ScrollView not updating
I create textView in scrollView. Every time i setText the textView, the text not updating, but when i open the keyboard then close it, the text updated.. after googling, i got the solution is call ...
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EditText: allow scrolling but disable selecting
I am trying to create a EditText in which no text can be selected, but which can still be scolled through by the user. To archive the first function a created a custom OnTouchListener and only ...
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How to create a terminal/console
i wanted to create a terminal/console, where the user can enter commands. I know java, but i'm new to xml, so i wanted to know how i can spawn text under text and if it gets to long it should be ...
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LinkMovementMethod not scrolling TextView
I have a TextView with clickable spannablestrings. I am calling textview.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); I am able to click individual words but the TextView does not scroll. ...
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How to set a max height of a any kind of view?
Background I'm trying to put a view within a container view, so that the container will allow the view to have any height (and/or width,depending on your specification) , yet not pass a specific one. ...
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How to horizontally scroll text in multiple text view android
I want to horizontally scroll the text in 2 text view. But it is scrolling only in one text view using following code. But another text view is not scrolling. Solution is high appreciated. <!-- ...