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Scroll and Text View Rangkum

This document discusses TextView and ScrollView in Android. It provides details on: - Using TextView to display single and multi-line text, setting text statically from XML or dynamically from code. - Formatting text using HTML tags and special characters. - Embedding a TextView in a ScrollView to allow scrolling of large amounts of text. - ScrollView can only hold one direct child but that child can be a layout containing multiple views.

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Scroll and Text View Rangkum

This document discusses TextView and ScrollView in Android. It provides details on: - Using TextView to display single and multi-line text, setting text statically from XML or dynamically from code. - Formatting text using HTML tags and special characters. - Embedding a TextView in a ScrollView to allow scrolling of large amounts of text. - ScrollView can only hold one direct child but that child can be a layout containing multiple views.

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3 Text and Scrolling Views


TextView
• TextView for text
● TextView is a view for displaying single and multi-line text
● EditText is a subclass of TextView with editable text
● Controlled with layout attributes
● Set text statically from a string resource in XML, or dynamically
from Java code and any source
• Formatting text in string resource
● Use <b> and <i> HTML tags for bold and italics
● All other HTML tags are ignored
● String resources: one unbroken line = one paragraph
● \n starts a new a line or paragraph
● Escape apostrophes and quotes with backslash (\", \')
● Escape any non-ASCII characters with backslash (\)
Creating TextView in XML
<TextView android:id="@+id/textview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/my_story"/>

Common TextView attributes

android:text—text to display
android:textColor—color of text
android:textAppearance—predefined style or theme
android:textSize—text size in sp
android:textStyle—normal, bold, italic, or bold|italic
android:typeface—normal, sans, serif, or monospace
android:lineSpacingExtra—extra space between lines in sp
Formatting active web links
<string name="article_text">... www.rockument.com ...</string>

<TextView
android:id="@+id/article"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="web"
android:text="@string/article_text"/>

autoLink values:"web", "email", "phone", "map", "all"

Don’t use HTML for a web link in free-form text


Creating TextView in Java code
TextView myTextview = new TextView(this);
myTextView.setWidth(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
myTextView.setHeight(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
myTextView.setMinLines(3);
myTextView.setText(R.string.my_story);
myTextView.append(userComment);
ScrollView
• What about large amounts of text?
● The user may need to scroll.
○ News stories, articles, ...
● To allow users to scroll a TextView, embed it in a ScrollView.
● Other Views can be embedded in a ScrollView.
○ LinearLayout, TextView, Button, ...

• ScrollView for scrolling content


● ScrollView is a subclass of FrameLayout
● Can only hold one view (which can be a ViewGroup)
● Holds all content in memory
● Not good for long texts, complex layouts
● Do not nest multiple scrolling views
● Use HorizontalScrollView for horizontal scrolling
● Use a RecyclerView for lists
ScrollView layout with one TextView
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/article_subheading">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
.../>
</ScrollView>
ScrollView layout with a view group
<ScrollView ...
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">

<TextView
android:id="@+id/article_subheading"
.../>

<TextView
android:id="@+id/article" ... />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
ScrollView with image and button
<ScrollView...>
<LinearLayout...> One child of ScrollView
which can be a layout
<ImageView.../>
<Button.../> Children of the layout

<TextView.../>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

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