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Questions tagged [textview]
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Single TextView with multiple colored text
As the title says, I want to know is it possible to achieve two different colored characters in a single textview element.
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Font size of TextView in Android application changes on changing font size from native settings
I want to specify my own text size in my application, but I am having a problem doing this.
When I change the font size in the device settings, the font size of my application TextView also changes.
Vikasdeep Singh
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How do I add a bullet symbol in TextView?
I have a TextView and I want to add a bullet symbol in my text through XML. Is it possible?
Pria
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Set TextView text from html-formatted string resource in XML
I have some fixed strings inside my strings.xml, something like:
Title
Content
and in my layout I've got a TextView which I'd like to fill with the…
Content
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TextView bold via XML file?
Is there a way to bold the text in a TextView via XML?
??
Thanks
user291701
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Android TextView : "Do not concatenate text displayed with setText"
I am setting text using setText() by following way.
prodNameView.setText("" + name);
prodOriginalPriceView.setText("" + String.format(getString(R.string.string_product_rate_with_ruppe_sign), "" + new BigDecimal(price).setScale(2,…
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Change the Right Margin of a View Programmatically?
Can this attribute be changed dynamically in Java code?
android:layout_marginRight
I have a TextView, that has to change its position some pixels to the left dynamically.
How to do it programmatically?
NullPointerException
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Android Paint: .measureText() vs .getTextBounds()
I'm measuring text using Paint.getTextBounds(), since I'm interested in getting both the height and width of the text to be rendered. However, the actual text rendered is always a bit wider than the .width() of the Rect information filled by…
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Android ClickableSpan not calling onClick
I am creating a ClickableSpan, and it is displaying properly with
the proper text underlined. However, the clicks are not registering.
Do you know what I am doing wrong???
Thanks, Victor
Here is the code snippet:
view.setText("This is a…
Victor Grazi
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How to programmatically set maxLength in Android TextView?
I would like to programmatically set maxLength property of TextView as I don't want to hard code it in the layout. I can't see any set method related to maxLength.
Can anyone guide me how to achieve this?
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How do I create a multiline TextField in SwiftUI?
I've been trying to create a multiline TextField in SwiftUI, but I can't figure out how.
This is the code I currently have:
struct EditorTextView : View {
@Binding var text: String
var body: some View {
TextField($text)
…
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How to add a line break in an Android TextView?
I am trying to add a line break in the TextView.
I tried suggested \n but that does nothing. Here is how I set my texts.
TextView txtSubTitle =…
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How to adjust text font size to fit textview
Is there any way in android to adjust the textsize in a textview to fit the space it occupies?
E.g. I'm using a TableLayout and adding several TextViews to each row. Since I don't want the TextViews to wrap the text I rather see that it lowers the…
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android TextView: setting the background color dynamically doesn't work
Setting the background color programatically of an android TextView doesn't seem to work.
I'm I missing something!
TextView et = new TextView(activity);
et.setText("350");
et.setBackgroundColor(R.color.white);
I also have this file (colors.xml) in…
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