assigning large string to textview.settext hangs UI

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I'm trying to show very large text (of length 850879) in textview, unfortunately when I assign text to textview, UI hangs for 8-15 seconds! How do we fix this issue? any idea?

`850879` chars? That is a lot to be displayed on a mobile device screen.. — donfuxx, Mar 26 '14 at 19:29
so do we have any work around to fix it without blocking UI? — Khawar, Mar 26 '14 at 19:32
Yes, cut the text to a reasonable size and load the rest only if the user actually wants to read it — donfuxx, Mar 26 '14 at 19:38

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '16 at 10:13

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Use Webview....instead of textview. Textview is not design to load large text.

WebView webView;
String html;
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("", html, "text/html", "UTF-8", "");

answered Dec 28 '16 at 10:13

Avinash Verma

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '14 at 19:58

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Can you spilt the text in small chunks and provide it to a list view... That way ui will not be blocked for what's not visible

answered Mar 26 '14 at 19:58

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assigning large string to textview.settext hangs UI

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