How to Add a Bullet Symbol in Textview

How do I add a bullet symbol in TextView?

You have to use the right character encoding to accomplish this effect. You could try with •

Update

Just to clarify: use `setText("\u2022 Bullet");` to add the bullet programmatically. `0x2022 = 8226`

How to add bullets to text view in android

These dots are represented by \u2022 char

How to add bulleted list to android application?

Tough to do as ul/li/ol are not supported. Fortunately you can use this as syntactic sugar:

• foo<br/>
• bar<br/>
• baz<br/>

• is the html entity for a list bullet
more choices are here http://www.elizabethcastro.com/html/extras/entities.html

more about which tags are supported provided by Mark Murphy (@CommonsWare)
http://commonsware.com/blog/Android/2010/05/26/html-tags-supported-by-textview.html
Load that up with Html.fromHtml

((TextView)findViewById(R.id.my_text_view)).setText(Html.fromHtml(myHtmlString));

Android: how to give bulletpoints, line break to text in textview

Thank you all...i finally ended up doing this

String nodata="hi how are you<br/>•welcome to stackoverflow"
TextView nodata= ((TextView) findViewById(R.id.nodata));
nodata.setText(Html.fromHtml(nodatafound)); 

and for justify left i did change in my layout file android:layout_gravity=center|left

i hope there is a betterway doing this.

Add Bullets with proper formatting in Android

Would You be satisfied of this example?

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private TextView tvProdDesc;

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

        tvProdDesc = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text1);

        String longDescription = "Enhanced bass performance.\n" +
                "Lightweight headband enhances comfort and adds durability\n" +
                "Easy to adjust headband ensures optimum fit and comfort\n" +
                "2 metre-long cable";

        String arr[] = longDescription.split("\n");

        int bulletGap = (int) dp(10);

        SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
            String line = arr[i];
            SpannableString ss = new SpannableString(line);
            ss.setSpan(new BulletSpan(bulletGap), 0, line.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            ssb.append(ss);

            //avoid last "\n"
            if(i+1<arr.length)
                ssb.append("\n");

        }

        tvProdDesc.setText(ssb);
    }

    private float dp(int dp) {
        return getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density * dp;
    }
}

Result:

Add bullet points between textview in horizontal listview

Use drawableLeft property for adding bullets in textview

as for xml

android:drawableLeft="your_file"

also in your view first image has no bullet then in code put check that

if(position == 0)
listTextView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(0, 0, 0, 0);

Indent bullet list in TextView

I'm suprised that there seems to be noone with this problem. I mean, bullet list can't be that uncommon in about-dialogs, FAQ etc and a bullet doesn't have to contain too much text to span more than one row and run into this problem.

Anyway, I got to solve it like this for now:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/ScrollViewTipsLayout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
        android:id="@+id/TipsLayout"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <TableLayout
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/TableLayout01"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    >
        <TableRow>
            <TextView android:id="@+id/tvIngress"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
                android:text="@+string/tv_picking_content_ingress"
                android:layout_span="2"
                android:singleLine="false"
                android:layout_weight="1"
            />
        </TableRow>
        <TableRow>
            <TextView android:id="@+id/tvCleaningDot1"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                android:text="•"
                android:singleLine="false"
            />
            <TextView android:id="@+id/tvCleaningFirst"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                android:text="@+string/tv_picking_content_first" 
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:gravity="left"
                android:singleLine="false" 
            />
        </TableRow>
            <TextView android:id="@+id/tvCleaningDot2"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                android:text="•"
                android:singleLine="false"
            />
            <TextView android:id="@+id/tvCleaningSecond"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                android:text="@+string/tv_picking_content_second" 
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:gravity="left"
                android:singleLine="false"
            />
        </TableRow>
    </TableLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

I use it to present static text in a bullet list so I don't bother to create the bullet + text dynamically in code. If anyone have any suggestion how to accomplish the same thing in a better way, please enlight me.

Btw, if going with the solution suggested in second link above:

android:text="<ol><li>item 1\n</li><li>item 2\n</li></ol>

The second, third etc. row in a bullet that span over more than one row won't get same indention as first line, which is quite ugly.

Android having paragraph and numbering/bullets on textview

If your text is static then you can extend TextView to automatically prepend a BulletSpan before your android:text:

layout.xml

<BulletTextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Orange" />
<BulletTextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Banana" />

BulletTextView.java

/**
 * {@link TextView} that automatically adds bullet point to text if set in layout
 */
public class BulletTextView extends TextView {
    public BulletTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        addBullet();
    }

    public BulletTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        addBullet();
    }

    public BulletTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        addBullet();
    }

    public BulletTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
        addBullet();
    }

    private void addBullet() {
        CharSequence text = getText();
        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(text)) {
            return;
        }
        SpannableString spannable = new SpannableString(text);
        spannable.setSpan(new BulletSpan(16), 0, text.length(), 0);
        setText(spannable);
    }
}

You can further customize this by adding custom attribute for indentation.

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