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Zodiw
Zodiw

Reputation: 11

Android eclipse development TextView Assistance

Whats up? I've been trying to learn a few basics when it comes to coding, and I've got a question regarding the helloworld-app.

A basic Hello world!-app shouldn't be hard to accomplish, as it shows the text "Hello world or whatever..u want it to be". Anyway, how would I go about making it display two, or even three separate lines?

For example:

Hello, world
[Second line]
[Third line]

I just can't figure out how to do this, so if anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4252

Answers (4)

karllindmark
karllindmark

Reputation: 6071

Isn't \n the way to go on that one?

An other way would be to wrap the TextViews in an LinearLayout, and fill them each with one sentence.

Edit (response to OP):

You can do it programmatically by using the following code (in your onCreate()-

//Grab the TextView that's been deflated from the XML-file
TextView theTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.{The id of your TextView});

//Set the text to a three-rowed message
theTextView.setText("Hello world!\nMy name is ninetwozero.\nLorem ipsum wouldn't fit here");

Remember to change {The id of your TextView} into the actual id of your TextView that's been set in the xml-layout file.

Upvotes: 4

Tsunaze
Tsunaze

Reputation: 3254

TextView yourText = (TextView)findViewById(TheId);
yourText.setText("Hello \n World \n Welcome to my app ?");

It display something like this : 1st line : Hello. 2nd line : World. 3rd line : Welcom to my app ?

Is it what you wanted ?

Upvotes: 0

Smugrik
Smugrik

Reputation: 850

'\n' is a special char that means 'new line' so it is "hello world\nLine 2\nLine 3"

Upvotes: 1

Sandeep Kumar P K
Sandeep Kumar P K

Reputation: 7482

Is this you want??

 <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/linearLayout1" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical">
    <TextView android:text="First Line" android:id="@+id/textView2" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></TextView>
    <TextView android:text="Second Line" android:id="@+id/textView1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></TextView>
    <TextView android:text="Third Line" android:id="@+id/textView3" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></TextView>
</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 3

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