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How can I use marquee text in an android application?
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Navigate to the app > res > layout > activity_main. xml and add the below code to that file. TextView is used here to add the text which we want to display on the screen. Here we have used android:ellipsize=”marquee” to add a marquee to our text and android:singleLine=”true” so that our text will show only in one line.
An HTML marquee is a scrolling piece of text displayed either horizontally across or vertically down your webpage depending on the settings. This is created by using HTML <marquees> tag. Note − The <marquee> tag deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this element, instead you can use JavaScript and CSS to create such effects.
If you want a horizontal scrollable text in your app, use android:ellipsize="marquee" where a single line large text will be scrolling.
Android App Development for Beginners A EditText is an overlay over TextView that configures itself to be editable. It is the predefined subclass of TextView that includes rich editing capabilities.
Here is an example:
public class TextViewMarquee extends Activity { private TextView tv; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); tv = (TextView) this.findViewById(R.id.mywidget); tv.setSelected(true); // Set focus to the textview } } The xml file with the textview:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"> <TextView android:id="@+id/mywidget" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:singleLine="true" android:ellipsize="marquee" android:fadingEdge="horizontal" android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever" android:scrollHorizontally="true" android:textColor="#ff4500" android:text="Simple application that shows how to use marquee, with a long text" /> </RelativeLayout> If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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