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Text and scrolling views

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● TextView
● ScrollView

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TextView

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TextView for text
● TextView is View subclass for single and multi-line text
● EditText is TextView subclass with editable text
● Controlled with layout attributes
● Set text:
○ Statically from string resource in XML
○ Dynamically from Java code and any source

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Formatting text in string resource
● Use <b> and <i> HTML tags for bold and italics
● All other HTML tags are ignored
● String resources: one unbroken line = one paragraph
● \n starts a new a line or paragraph
● Escape apostrophes and quotes with backslash (\", \')
● Escape any non-ASCII characters with backslash (\)
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Creating TextView in XML

<TextView android:id="@+id/textview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/my_story"/>

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Common TextView attributes
android:text—text to display
android:textColor—color of text
android:textAppearance—predefined style or theme
android:textSize—text size in sp
android:textStyle—normal, bold, italic, or bold|italic
android:typeface—normal, sans, serif, or monospace
android:lineSpacingExtra—extra space between lines in sp
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Formatting active web links
<string name="article_text">... www.rockument.com ...</string>

<TextView
android:id="@+id/article"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="web"
android:text="@string/article_text"/> Don’t use HTML
for a web link in
free-form text
autoLink values:"web", "email", "phone", "map", "all"
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Creating TextView in Java code
TextView myTextview = new TextView(this);
myTextView.setWidth(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
myTextView.setHeight(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
myTextView.setMinLines(3);
myTextView.setText(R.string.my_story);
myTextView.append(userComment);

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ScrollView

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What about large amounts of text?

● News stories, articles, etc…

● To scroll a TextView, embed it in a ScrollView
● Only one View element (usually TextView) allowed in a
ScrollView
● To scroll multiple elements, use one ViewGroup (such as
LinearLayout) within the ScrollView

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ScrollView for scrolling content
● ScrollView is a subclass of FrameLayout
● Holds all content in memory
● Not good for long texts, complex layouts
● Do not nest multiple scrolling views
● Use HorizontalScrollView for horizontal scrolling
● Use a RecyclerView for lists

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 ScrollView layout with one TextView
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/article_subheading">

<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
.../>

</ScrollView>
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 ScrollView layout with a view group
<ScrollView ...
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">

<TextView
android:id="@+id/article_subheading"
.../>

<TextView
android:id="@+id/article" ... />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

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ScrollView with image and button
<ScrollView...>
One child of ScrollView
<LinearLayout...>
which can be a layout
<ImageView.../>
<Button.../> Children of the layout

<TextView.../>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
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