Android EditText Vertical Scrolling Problem

Question

I'm using an EditText of some predefined size, however when a user enters more text then fits in the text box, they aren't able to scroll the text with touch. Scrolling does work with a trackball.

What can I do to fix this?

Answer 1

If you would like the text to scroll horizontally, define in your EditText XML tag:

android:scrollHorizontally="true"

If you would like a vertical scroll, define in your EditText XML tag:

android:scrollbars = "vertical"

Hope this helped.

Answer 2

make the changes like the following to get scroller in your EditText

questionEntry.setScroller(new Scroller(myContext)); 
questionEntry.setMaxLines(1); 
questionEntry.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(true); 
questionEntry.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod()); 

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