Append text to a TextView datatype

Question

I\'m a beginner android/java programmer and my background is primarily in C++ and C#. In C# if I have a string variable called myWord and it has a value of \"Hello\" I can appen

Answer 1

Why nobody suggested getText() method ?

TextView displayTextView = null;
displayTextView.setText("text1");
displayTextView.setText(displayTextView.getText() + "text2");//poor and weak

or better for longer strings:

SpannableString ss =new SpannableString();
ss.append("text1").append("text2");
displayTextView.setText(ss);