Android TextView Scrollable

Question

I have a textView which size is 16 characters, if it exceeds 16 characters I want to make it scrollable to the user to view remaining characters. Could any one help me?

I have tried this link Making TextView scrollable on Android

But there is no result?

My TextView Layout:

<TextView  
    android:id="@+id/tv1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:maxLength="16"
       android:scrollbars = "vertical"
       android:ellipsize="end"
    android:text="fdgdddhhhdhd"
    />

You can use this : TextView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod()); with TextView.setselected(true); ... — Aditi Parikh, May 06 '15 at 11:54
Possible duplicate of [Making TextView Scrollable in Android](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1748977/making-textview-scrollable-in-android) — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Feb 05 '16 at 21:46

score 26 · Answer 1 · edited May 26 '15 at 07:33

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In your XML layout file:

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/message_scroll"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:scrollbars="vertical"
    android:text="@string/lorem" />

In your Java class file:

TextView tv = (TextView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.message_scroll);
tv.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());

edited May 26 '15 at 07:33

Sami Eltamawy

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answered May 26 '14 at 16:24

Alaeddine Zidi

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This is amazing but how can I scroll both vertically and horizontally? – Shankar Apr 29 '16 at 14:18

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 06 '15 at 11:48

Wrap your textview in a scrollview:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
        <TextView  
            android:id="@+id/tv1"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
            android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
            android:maxLength="16"
            android:scrollbars = "vertical"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:text="fdgdddhhhdhd" />
</ScrollView>

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 26 '14 at 16:11

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Your android:maxlength="16" limits the number of characters that can be placed in the TextView to 16

According to the developer site

answered May 26 '14 at 16:11

Hank Wilson

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