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I want a vertical label for my app. Is there a property to make text vertical? Here's what I mean vertical label: 

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thanks ahead.

jayellos
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    You might need to do it your self by extending a view or textview and overriding the onDraw method. – blessanm86 Apr 12 '12 at 03:59
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    I think you can find your answer here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1258275/vertical-rotated-label-in-android – Ajay Apr 12 '12 at 04:51

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A simple solution may be to insert a \n after each character, and make sure that the the height is set to fill_parent.

Abdullah Jibaly
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    thank you, it works. I also have a solution, in setting textView text i use Html.fromHtml(), and I traverse every letter and insert
    tag then set the textView Text.     – jayellos Apr 12 '12 at 05:08
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Add \n after every letter. In the layout xml it won't appear right, but running it to an actual device or emulator will appear correct.

 <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="h\ne\nl\nl\no\n w\no\nr\nl\nd" />

you can set the layout_height to wrap_content as well.

Mark Pazon
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Also another option if you only need one line of text and have a fixed-width typeface (monospace or Asian fonts):

Limit the TextView width to fit just one character. The height can be wrap_content.

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