Android textview that contain lot of text

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Hy! I am working on Android app for Cars where I want to show news of car. So I have 50 lines of text, I want to put all that text in one activity so u can scroll and read that text. Should I use TextView or something else? Should I save that whole text in res/strings.xml ?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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You can use the TextView itself. To make it scrollable see this Stackoverflow answer. It is recommended to store strings in strings.xml

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Apr 13 '16 at 17:45

Aswin P J

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 13 '16 at 17:45

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If you need scrolling content, the easiest thing to do is place the view to be scrolled in a ScrollView. This works for any type of view that does not scroll itself, including TextView.

answered Apr 13 '16 at 17:45

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actually i want to scroll image as well as text as i mentioned in my activity there is one image and below that detail of image and using scrollview it only scroll text how can i scroll both ? – sanaya Apr 16 '16 at 12:03
Put all the content to scroll in a container such as LinearLayout, then put the LinearLayout inside a ScrollView. ScrollView will scroll the whole thing for you. – Doug Stevenson Apr 16 '16 at 15:43

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 13 '16 at 18:05

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You can use TextView. However, i recommend use the following part in the .xml part:

<TextView
    android:text="@string/nameofthetext"
/>

nameofthetext should be save in the strings.xml file (You'll find in the values folder)

answered Apr 13 '16 at 18:05

NyanMe

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Android textview that contain lot of text

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