How to handle a large textView that get's cutoff on small screen sizes in Android?

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I have a textView that fits perfectly on my Galaxy Nexus and it takes up the whole screen. I'm trying the application out on lower resolution devices and my text is getting cutoff. What's the easiest way to alleviate this?

If you change it to `dp` it will automatically re-sized according your display density. — Ali, Apr 01 '13 at 16:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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Stick it inside of a ScrollView.

EDIT: If you can't use a ScrollView, something like this might help. Basically, you would extend TextView and it would recalculate the text size whenever the size of the view changes.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Apr 01 '13 at 16:20

Karakuri

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Ah Yes. Simple and fairly straight forward, but I forgot to mention that as my only guideline, I cannot have a Scroll View. – EGHDK Apr 01 '13 at 16:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 01 '13 at 16:26

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If you can't put in a ScrollView or make in 2 lines, another option is to have a different smaller text for lower resolutions.

answered Apr 01 '13 at 16:26

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 12:52

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You can do this on java by writing with \n it will gets new line.it automatically looks like scroll view.

answered Apr 02 '13 at 12:52

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How to handle a large textView that get's cutoff on small screen sizes in Android?

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