Horizontal scrolling text in Android

Question

I've been looking around for quite some time now, and I can't get a straight answer for my question.

It's quite simple: How can I get a nice scrolling text just like the long app names in the Market when you select an application?

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited May 02 '12 at 09:17

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I've figured it out by myself.

android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

edited May 02 '12 at 09:17

Matt

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answered Oct 05 '10 at 11:15

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Ah, your TextView is in a ListView ! Btw, don't work with focusableInTouchMode until you fully understand it and mark the question as answered. – fedj Oct 06 '10 at 09:46
No, it's in a `RelativeLayout` that is used as a custom title... I can't mark it as answered until tomorrow because of my lack of reputation – mariusgreve Oct 06 '10 at 11:21

IronBlossom · Answer 2 · 2015-04-09T07:55:09.220

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Make a translate animation in your anim folder like:

<translate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:duration="12000"
    android:fromXDelta="100"
    android:interpolator="@android:anim/linear_interpolator"
    android:repeatCount="infinite"
    android:repeatMode="restart"
    android:toXDelta="-100" />

And then to your textview like:

yourtextview.startAnimation((Animation)AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(Context,R.anim.youranim_xml));

Hope this might help you.

Edit:

Try this:

<TextView 
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:fadingEdge="horizontal"
android:lines="1"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
android:padding="4dp"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Simple application that shows how to use marquee, with a long text" />

edited Apr 09 '15 at 07:55

answered May 03 '12 at 21:40

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I like this approach a lot. – maddesa Jan 24 '14 at 17:29
Animation is working but how to remove ... from the end of the textview and increase the size of textview to its content – Hemant Shori Apr 09 '15 at 07:28
@Hemant `yourtextview.clearAnimation()` will stop the animation. You can do textview ui staffs after that. – IronBlossom Apr 09 '15 at 07:30
@IronBlossom Man .actually animation is clipping rest of the text its like this `Today's news this that die injured ...` the rest of the text is clipped I want to increase the size of TextView cause animation is animating just this much part not the whole text – Hemant Shori Apr 09 '15 at 07:39
@Hemant Set your textview ellipsize to `none` and `layout_width=wrap_content` – IronBlossom Apr 09 '15 at 07:41
@IronBlossom I have tried this but still size remains same. it is clipping the textview width .Also i am using singleline="true" – Hemant Shori Apr 09 '15 at 07:45
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hey its Done i have Put my Text View in `HorizontalScrollView`. how to increase the speed of animation' – Hemant Shori Apr 09 '15 at 07:56

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 12 '14 at 19:14

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the decision which works for me:

textView.setSelected(true); 
textView.setEllipsize(TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
textView.setSingleLine(true);

without focusable's parameters

edited Sep 12 '14 at 19:14

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answered Jan 19 '12 at 19:55

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 05 '10 at 09:41

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android:ellipsize="marquee"

answered Oct 05 '10 at 09:41

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I've tried that, and it doesn't work... `` – mariusgreve Oct 05 '10 at 10:16
I have also tried that and it doesn't work for me too `` – Yogesh Maheshwari Aug 01 '12 at 12:18
I have my textview inside LinearLayout – Yogesh Maheshwari Aug 01 '12 at 12:20

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

Use a normal TextView with the following config:

android:text="your text here"
android:id="@+id/MarqueeText"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />

The problem with this is that you cannot adjust the speed of the scrolling text.

Enclose a TextView within a ScrollView:

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <TextView
            android:id="@+id/myTextView"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Your Text here" >
        </TextView>
    </ScrollView>

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