Android TextView with scrollbars and maxHeight

Question

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 to wrap TextView with ScrollView, but ScrollView has no maxHeight attribute.

Cristian · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-05 17:02:07Z

Layout:

<TextView android:id="@+id/text_view" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:singleLine="false" android:maxLines="3" android:scrollbars="vertical" android:textColor="@android:color/secondary_text_dark_nodisable" > </TextView>

Code:

TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text_view); textView.setMovementMethod(ScrollingMovementMethod.getInstance());

Note:

The android:textColor="@android:color/secondary_text_dark_nodisable" is used to avoid text fade out when textView is touched.

When I try this, the TextView displays scrollbars but I can't actually make it scroll.
You have to execute this from code: TexView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());
I used this approach since I could not ellipsize more than two lines. Thanks.
@alex2k8 4 years later your answer helped me. Wasted an hour figuring this out.

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