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Add Line Breaks to a TextView Just add a \n to your text. This can be done directly in your layout file, or in a string resource and will cleanly break the text in your TextView to the next line.
XML does not require a specific form of line break, so you can use whatever is convenient (carriage return, linefeed, or a combination) when creating an XML file. XML parsers will do the right thing largely because they're parsing on tags, not records - so whatever line break you're using is just whitespace to XML.
Add \t for tab and \n for new line.
Use \n for a line break and \t if you want to insert a tab.
You can also use some XML tags for basic formatting: <b> for bold text, <i> for italics, and <u> for underlined text
More info:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html
\n didn't work for me. So I used <br/> HTML tag
<string name="message_register_success">
Sign up is complete. <br/>
Enjoy a new shopping life at fatherofapps.com!!
</string>
Use \t to add tab and \n for new line, here is a simple example below.
<string name="list_with_tab_tag">\tbanana\torange\tblueberry\tmango</string>
<string name="sentence_with_new_line_tag">This is the first sentence\nThis is the second scentence\nThis is the third sentence</string>
add this line at the top of string.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
and use
'\n'
from where you want to break your line.
ex. <string> Hello world. \n its awesome. <string>
Output:
Hello world.
its awesome.
You can use \n for new line and \t for tabs. Also, extra spaces/tabs are just copied the way you write them in Strings.xml so just give a couple of spaces where ever you want them.
A better way to reach this would probably be using padding/margin in your view xml and splitting up your long text in different strings in your string.xml
\n doesn't seem to work for tools:text
You can use <br/> to get a preview including line breaks, but it won't show up on the device unless you format the text using something like Html.fromHtml()
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