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Android TextView Justify Text
How do you get the text of a TextView to be Justified (with text flush on the left- and right- hand sides)?
I found a possible solution here, but it does not work (even if you change vertical-center to center_vertical, etc).
user130076
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Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View?
I have a TextView and I'd like to add a black border along its top and bottom borders. I tried adding android:drawableTop and android:drawableBottom to the TextView, but that only caused the entire view to become black.
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Android, How to limit width of TextView (and add three dots at the end of text)?
I have a TextView that I want to limit characters of it. Actually, I can do this but the thing that I'm looking for is how to add three dots (...) at the end of string. This one shows the text has continue. This is my XML but there is no dots…
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how to make a specific text on TextView BOLD
I don't know how to make a specific text on TextView become BOLD.
its like this
txtResult.setText(id+" "+name);
I want the output to be like this:
1111 neil
id and name are variables that I have retrieved the value from database, and I want to…
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Programmatically set left drawable in a TextView
I have a textView in xml here.
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android on Text Change Listener
I have a situation, where there are two fields. field1 and field2. All I want
to do is empty field2 when field1 is changed and vice versa. So at the end only
one field has content on it.
field1 = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.field1);
field2 =…
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How to set text color of a TextView programmatically?
How can I set the text color of a TextView to #bdbdbd programatically?
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What is meant by Ems? (Android TextView)
What is meant by Ems (related to a TextView)? For example in
android:ems setEms(int)
Makes the TextView be exactly this many ems wide.
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Android - set TextView TextStyle programmatically?
Is there a way to set the textStyle attribute of a TextView programmatically? There doesn't appear to be a setTextStyle() method.
To be clear, I am not talking about View / Widget styles! I am talking about the following:
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How to change the font on the TextView?
How to change the font in a TextView, as default it's shown up as Arial? How to change it to Helvetica?
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How to set the part of the text view is clickable
I have the text "Android is a Software stack". In this text i want to set the "stack" text as clickable. So, if you click on that it will redirected to a new activity(not in the browser).
I tried but i am not getting a solution.
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Android TextView padding between lines
I have a TextView which displays a long text. I want to give some space between lines like in CSS with line-height property. How can I do it?
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How do I add a newline to a TextView in Android?
When I define a TextView in xml, how do I add a new line to it? \n seems not to work.
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Is there a way to style a TextView to uppercase all of its letters?
I would like to be able to assign a xml attribute or style to a TextView that will make whatever text it has in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
The attributes android:inputType="textCapCharacters" and android:capitalize="characters" do nothing and look like…
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Set style for TextView programmatically
I'm trying to use the TextView constructor with style like this:
TextView myText = new TextView(MyActivity.this, null, R.style.my_style);
However, when I do this, the text view does not appear to take the style (I verified the style by setting it…
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