How to animate the textview (very very long text )scroll automatically horizontally

Question

I am not interested in Marquee because, in Marquee you can not control the speed of marquee. I have tried to animate the textview but Parent view clips the text at the end even though all parent layout and view groups encompassing textviews are set with two flags clipchildren= false, clipToPadding=false.

Am I missing something or is there a better work around ?

The xml looks like

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="66dp"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:textColor="#585858"
        android:textSize="32sp" >
    </TextView>

and code snippet look like

TextView textView2 = (TextView)findViewById( R.id.textview1 );    
textView2.startAnimation((Animation)AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.translate));

Answer 1

I am sure this will definitely solve the problem of the large audience out there.

Q: Auto-scroll a single line long text message(either using hard_coding or from string.xml) horizontally & infinitely at a reasonable speed but using marquee(try it once at least). No clipping

Step 1: In activity_main.xml file:

<TextView
    android:text="either hard coding or from string.xml"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/textView2"  
    android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
    android:textSize="18sp"
    android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
    android:textColor="@android:color/background_light" />

Step 2: In main_activity java file public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2);
    textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
    textView.setSelected(true);
    textView.setSingleLine(true);
    textView.setText("Oxfam says 8 men as rich as half the world. | Govt may set threshold for probe into deposits. | At least 32 dead after Turkish plane hits village.");}}

//one can remove the last line line if he has already feed the long input