Using tabulator / tabspace in a TextView

Question

I wish to use some tabspace in a line where I call setText

if(id==R.id.radioButton1){
            title.setText(numbertext.getText()+\" Grams\");


        

Answer 1

If "\t" doesn't work and \u0009 (Unicode for a tab) only shows 1 space:

In values/strings.xml add

<string name="tab">\u0009\u0009\u0009\u0009</string>

Then in your Java file add

textView.setText("text" + getString(R.string.tab) + "moretext");

Answer 2

"\t" works as well, and "\n" is used to start new line

Answer 3

You should add tabulator to the text, but \t don't work in settext. The solution is add the character \u0009 that represents in unicode char the tabulator, in a string resource.

<string name="tab">\u0009</string>

TextView hello = (TextView) findViewById(R.string.helloTextView);

hello.setText("e"+getString(R.string.tab)+"e");

just combine more tab to have more space

getString(R.string.tab)+getString(R.string.tab)+getString(R.string.tab)