Multiline Textview in Android

Multiline TextView in Android?

If the text you're putting in the TextView is short, it will not automatically expand to four lines. If you want the TextView to always have four lines regardless of the length of the text in it, set the android:lines attribute:

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/address1"
    android:gravity="left"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:maxLines="4"
    android:lines="4"
    android:text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat."></TextView>

You can do this with TableRow, see below code

<TableRow >
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/tv_description_heading"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="left"
            android:padding="8dp"
            android:text="@string/rating_review"
            android:textColor="@color/black"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/tv_description"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="left"
            android:maxLines="4"`enter code here`
            android:padding="8dp"
            android:text="The food test was very good."
            android:textColor="@color/black"
            android:textColorHint="@color/hint_text_color" />
    </TableRow>

How to let a TextView have multiple lines?

It sounds like you want to wrap text around a picture, like so:

--------------------
|..........| xxxxxxx
|..Picture.| xxxxxxx
|..........| xxxxxxx
------------ xxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxTextxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I think the easiest option is to a WebView. However, according to this you can also use image tags in a TextView. I've never tried it myself, but I have used the other tags like so: TextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<b>some bold text</b> some normal text")) so maybe something similar will work in your situation.

Forcing a TextView to be with a multiple line text

Use the below layout I have mentioned in comments too.

<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/linearLayoutBottomData"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/linearLayoutTopData"
android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="1">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/myTextView1"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="0.4"
    android:gravity="left|start"
    android:text="TextView"
    android:textColor="@android:color/black"
    android:textSize="@dimen/large_font_size"
    android:singleLine="false"/>

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/myTextView2"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="0.4"
    android:gravity="left|start"
    android:text="TextView"
    android:textColor="@android:color/black"
    android:textSize="@dimen/large_font_size"/>

How to make a TextView multiline programmatically in Android (Java)

You want to show to different texts in the same textview? if so, use two text views like:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/hello_world" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/hello_world" />
</LinearLayout>

Remote android:inputType="textMultiLine", this is an EditText Atribute.

If you just want to use more then one line in the same text view:

android:maxLines="5"//optional to set max numbers of lines
android:minLines="2"//optional to set min numbers of lines
android:singleLine="false"//set false to allow multiple line
android:lines="2" //or more

If this textview you want to use belongs to a ListView, just use:

android.R.layout.simple_list_item_2

It will give you two texts views to work on.

Creating a multiline TextView

try following for multiline TextView.

<TextView 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:maxLines="4" 
    android:singleLine="false" 
    android:text="YES\nNo\ntrue\nfalse" />

You can try \n to set text in next line.

Android TextView Multiline Formatting

For me the correct answer, and actually so simple I should have discovered earlier:

I simply added:

android:typeface="monospace"

to my TextView

How to set a Multiline-TextView non-editable

Try this make you TextView to android:longClickable="false"

<TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="1. Hello, Dies ist ein Beispielsatz. \n2. Dies ist der zweite Satz."
        android:longClickable="false"
        android:textSize="20dp"
        android:inputType="textMultiLine"
        />

Multiline TextView with line breaks wrapping

Muhammad Babar's suggestion fixes the issue. I added a RelativeLayout as the parent of the LinearLayout and now all text is properly shown (see below for working code).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
  <LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingBottom="4dp"
    android:paddingTop="4dp"
    android:orientation="vertical">
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/OfficeImage"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="top|center_horizontal"
        android:scaleType="centerInside"
        android:adjustViewBounds="true"
        android:maxWidth="175dp"/>
    <TextView
          android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
          android:id="@+id/InfoWindowTitle"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="Sunshine Coast"
          android:textColor="@android:color/black"
          android:textStyle="bold"/>
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/InfoWindowSubtitle"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="10dp"
        android:text="Level 3, 2 Emporio Place\n2 Maroochy Blvd, Maroochydore QLD 4558\nPo Box 5800, Maroochydore BC QLD 4558"
        android:maxLines="10"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"/>
  </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

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