Best approach to set some long text on a TextView

Question

I have to display some long text on a TextView, i tried to put it on strings.xml variable but had that problem Apostrophe not preceded by \. I used Java code to set the TextView but all the text must be on one line, and i want that the compiler detects return to line.

My question what is the best approach to make that ? Thanks for helping.

Answer 1

Use mTextSample.setText(Html.fromHtml(text)); Where you can show anything in your TextView using Html.fromHtml().

Example (Some uses):

String styledText = "This is <font color='red'>simple</font>.";
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(styledText), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

.

myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<h2>Title</h2><br><p>Description here</p>"));

And some uses :

Android Html.fromHtml takes too long

Display HTML Formatted String

Happy coding :)

Answer 2

You should add it to the strings.xml and add escape characters for all 'sensitive' characters you may use, such as apostrophe. For example

<string name="test">It\'s me</string>

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

If you are having long text to display in text view then should try to set pro grammatically like String text = "Your Text goes here, what ever you want to display";

TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);

tv.setText(text);

Don't forget to put your text view under a scroll view in your layout for better User Expierence.