Android -TextView to String

Question

i have two text views in my linear layout and dynamically text get displayed. Now how to convert that text view to a string in my application.

you can get the string value like `textView.getText().toString()` — Raghunandan, Dec 19 '13 at 08:10
possible duplicate of [Converting TextView to String (kind of) Android](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3928864/converting-textview-to-string-kind-of-android) — Shayan Pourvatan, Dec 19 '13 at 08:21

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 19 '13 at 08:10

5

suppose your textview name is tv1 then try

String input = tv1.getText().toString();

answered Dec 19 '13 at 08:10

Nambi

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '13 at 08:12

You cant change textview to string but you can get string from textview. This is for textview:

TextView textView;
textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_1);
textView.setText("AFJHDFGKS");

then to get text as string:

String text = textView.getText().toString();

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