Max 9000 characters in Android TextView?

Question

I have items with a lot of text, mostly around 8500 to 9500 characters. I want to display that in a scrollable textview, but when put the text in a TextView, it seems to be

Answer 1

For anyone looking at this in 2018, I don't think there's a hard limit. I have a pretty cheap Android phone with 1 GB of RAM and was able to both edit and display over 40,000 characters of text. There is a slight initial pause when pasting into the edit box and when rendering into a text view but otherwise it works just fine.