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

You can call append() on a TextView object.

In your case it would be: displayTextView.append("Bob!");

Answer 2

First letter of String is not small letter. To take a String variable in java you have to write String var;

So, for android use following code:

TextView displayTextView = null;
TextView displayTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myText);
String myWord = "Your";
displayTextView.setText("Hello " + myword);

This should work.

Answer 3

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);

Answer 4

If you are using TextView, use append. For example:

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myText);
textView.setText("Hello");
textView.append(" Bob!");

Answer 5

Your issue is on your declaration of the String instance in both the method and the variable.

It requires a "S" not a lower case s.

Also the "+" sign does work, it is just your String declaration as pointed out.

All the best :)