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VanessaF
VanessaF

Reputation: 793

How to display bullet points with variable length in Android that are underneath each other

I would like to add a list with bullet points with variable size (line numbers) in an Android popup window (with Java) such that the bullets starts directly underneath each other. For example I have the list

The bullet points come from a database query. Now how can I implement this? I thought about using a textView for every bullet point. The bullet points are the columns of a database query (so I have multiple columns per row with the text; each of them has 1 bullet point). The problem is that if I specify the textView in the XML layout file, I can't know in advance how many line it should cover and thus I can't position the textViews correctly.

Another approach might be to just use 1 column in the database for all bullets but use some formatting symbols in the string and try to build the string using the formatting symbols just in 1 TextView. As I have no experience with such a approach I just wanted to ask you, what other ways (possibly more convenient) exist to do something like this?

I'd appreciate every comment and would be thankful for your advice.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 300

Answers (1)

Dennis Nguyen
Dennis Nguyen

Reputation: 474

Maybe I dont understand 100% what situation you're trying to describe, I dont know why you stored bullet in your database? However, if you want to build the bullet points with texts dynamically, you can refer to this article for more information

Upvotes: 1

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