Multiline TextView in Android?

Question

I did like below in xml

Answer 1

I like neither of the answers. Simply set the inputType and the TextView will adapt to its content

<TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:inputType="textMultiLine"/>

Tested on a Nexus One (2.3) and Nexus 4 (4.4)

Answer 2

I just thought I'd add that if you use :

android:inputType="textMultiLine"

Then the view stops being clickable. I was trying to get multi line textviews in my slide-drawer menu which obviously needs to respond to clicks.

The android:singleLine="false" worked fine though.

Answer 3

I do not like the solution that forces the number of lines in the text view. I rather suggest you solve it via the solution proposed here. As I see the OP is also struggling with making text view look like proper in table and shrinkColumns is the correct directive to pass in to achieve what is wanted.

Answer 4

you can use android:inputType="textMultiLine"

  <TextView android:id="@+id/address1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="left"
    android:maxLines="4" 
    android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:text="Johar Mor, Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi" />

Answer 5

for me non of the solutions did not work. I know it is not a complete answer for this question, but sometimes it can help.

I put 4 textviews in a vertical linearlayout.

<Linearlayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation:"vertical"

    ...>
    <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text:"line1"
       .../>
    <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text:"line2"
       .../>
    <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text:"line3"
       .../>
    <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text:"line4"
       .../>
</LinearLayout>

This solution is good for cases that the text view text is constant, like labels.

Answer 6

First replace "\n" with its Html equavalent "<br>" then call Html.fromHtml() on the string. Follow below steps:

String text= model.getMessageBody().toString().replace("\n", "<br>")
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(Html.fromHtml(text).toString()))

This works perfectly.