How can I make vertically scrollable textview in remoteviews of a widget?

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Hi I am a newbie in android development and confused about how to make TextView in a widget (remoteviews) scrollable. I have add android:scrollbars="vertical" in attributes of TextView, however, it makes no response when I touch it. Can any one please tell me how to solve this, thanks a lot.

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It might be tricky as it's a RemoteView and not all the attributes of the normal Views work. I would try having the TextView as a single element of a ListView and populate that with a RemoteViewsService (See the ['Using App Widgets with Collections'](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/#collections)) It is not meant to be used like that, but it should work. — Alex Styl, Oct 27 '18 at 19:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '18 at 13:15

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To make textview text scrollable you can use ScrollView widget like this

<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true">
  <Your TextView Code/>
</ScrollView>

answered Oct 26 '18 at 13:15

ShehrozEK

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '18 at 13:29

try this example

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/textview"
    android:maxLines = "3"
    android:scrollbars="vertical"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/imageView"
    android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/imageView"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imageView"></TextView>

In java,

TextView txtview=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview);
    String text="your text";
    txtview.setText(text);
    txtview.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());

Thank you! But how can I get the TextView from the RemoteViews Object? I can only get the view of the widget via RemoteViews now. — Aneureka, Oct 26 '18 at 15:18

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 26 '18 at 18:44

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Once you have a reference to your TextView, now you can try this:

TextView nameOfYourTextView = findViewById(R.id.id_of_your_text_view);    
nameOfYourTextView.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());

edited Oct 26 '18 at 18:44

Jorge Aguilar

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answered Oct 26 '18 at 12:57

AhmetAcikalin

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Hi, thanks but I am not clear how can I get the TextView from the RemoteViews object... – Aneureka Oct 26 '18 at 13:19

How can I make vertically scrollable textview in remoteviews of a widget?

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