how to create EditText more than one line in android

i am having a hard time creating a EditText which is multiline and width of nearly "100dp". The functionality is what i want that one can enter his short message of 10-20 lines in i开发者_StackOverflow社区t, just like i am typing my question in this BOX.Here is the code i am using to get the desired functionality.

<EditText android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:text="" 
    android:layout_height="100dp" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:id="@+id/desc_text" 
    android:layout_marginLeft = "5dp"
    android:layout_marginRight = "5dp"
    android:scrollHorizontally ="true"
    android:scrollbars = "vertical"
    android:singleLine = "false">
</EditText> 

but i am getting a edit text of 100dp height but still taking single line input from middle. Please help me how to do this. Thanks

try below code

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/msgtext"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:textSize="18sp"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dip"
    android:scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack="true"
    android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:layout_height="150dip"
    android:gravity="top"
    android:padding="5dip">
</EditText>

Add android:gravity="top" to your EditText object

Add this attribute android:lines="3" to your xml to have a TextView with 3 lines.

Set this property in your xml file android:maxLines=" 20" 20 lines edittext is this.

in Java:

  input = findViewById(R.id.desc_text);
    input.setMinLines(3);

or in XML:

android:minLines="5"