Making TextView scrollable on Android

Question

I am displaying text in a TextView that appears to be too long to fit into one screen. I need to make my TextView scrollable. How can I do that?

Here is the code:

final TextView tv = new TextView(this); tv.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.splash); tv.setTypeface(face); tv.setTextSize(18); tv.setTextColor(R.color.BROWN); tv.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL| Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL); tv.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {     public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent e) {         Random r = new Random();         int i = r.nextInt(101);         if (e.getAction() == e.ACTION_DOWN) {             tv.setText(tips[i]);             tv.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.inner);         }         return true;     } }); setContentView(tv); 

Answer 1

You don't need to use a ScrollView actually.

Just set the

android:scrollbars = "vertical" 

properties of your TextView in your layout's xml file.

Then use:

yourTextView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());

in your code.

Bingo, it scrolls!