How to display multiple lines of text with scrolling in android?

Question

I want to display multiple lines of text in my application in particular range such that user can scroll to view other lines. I have tried EditText, but it generates keyboard on top of it and doesn't scroll properly. Then I tried TextView, it also does not scroll the text properly as I wanted.

Is there any other option available? If No, then how to scroll the text vertically in TextView or EditText? I want to scroll the text on drag as in WebView. NOT auto scroll.

Answer 1

You can limit the Height of TextView to match the number of lines you user wants to see, then simply put your TextView in a ScrollView

I had done a simple example to demonstrate this...

<ScrollView android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent">
<TextView 
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="30dp"
    android:textSize="16sp"
    android:id="@+id/tv1"
    />
</ScrollView>