TextView Marquee not working [duplicate]

Answer 1

Just put these parameters in your TextView. It works :)

    android:singleLine="true" 
    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:marqueeRepeatLimit ="marquee_forever"
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 

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Answer 2

I had gone through this situation where textview marquee was not working. However follow this and I am sure it will work. :)

<TextView
         android:id="@+id/tv_marquee"
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:ellipsize="marquee"
         android:focusable="true"
         android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
         android:freezesText="true"
         android:maxLines="1"
         android:scrollHorizontally="true"
         android:text="This is a sample code of marquee and it works"/>

and programmatically add these 2 lines...

tvMarquee.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
tvMarquee.setSelected(true);

tvMarquee.setSelected(true) is required incase if any one of the view is already focused and setSelected will make it work. No need to use.

android:singleLine="true"

it is deprecated and above codes works.

Answer 3

Just add those as said above:

    android:singleLine="true" 
    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:marqueeRepeatLimit ="marquee_forever"

AND!! you must use TextView.setSelected(true) inside your java code.

The reason for marquee not working with some of the guys in this article , If you have an input form with an EditText ( which is an input), The EditText will be the one with focus and selection by default in the form. Now, if you force it thru TextView.setSelected(true), TextView will eventually do marquee no matter what.

So the whole idea is to make the TextView widget focused and selected to make marquee work.

Answer 4

Most of the answers are identical,
but also notice that in some cases marquee will not work without specifying of width in dips for the container.
For instance if you use weight in parent container

android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0.5"

marquee may not work.

Answer 5

I'm working with minSDK=14 and was curious what set of these variations would work. I ended up with:

android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
android:singleLine="true"

in addition to other formatting stuff. I didn't need scrollHoriontally, focusable, or focusableInTouchMode.

This set did require a call to

setSelected(true)

What I find interesting is that singleLine has allegedly been deprecated, with a recommendation to replace it with maxLines = 1. Except - when I do that, that change alone stops the text from scrolling. One would hope that when singleLine eventually bites the dust, that all its current behavior will be triggered by maxLines...

Answer 6

Use the following line in your code:

TextView.setSelected(true);