How can you have multiple paragraphs in a ScrollView? XML

I am trying to simply put a few paragraphs on the screen with xml that you can scroll through vertically because they are too big to see them all. I have tried many different things but c开发者_运维问答an't figure it out.

I'm adding on to what John said above. You want a linearlayout inside a scrollview to achieve this.

Something like the following:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <LinearLayout
       android:layout_width="fill_parent"
       android:layout_height="fill_parent"
       android:orientation="vertical">
       <TextView
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="fill_parent"
         android:text="Paragraph 1\n\nParagraph2\n\nParagraph 3"/>
   </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

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Embed the textviews within a linear layout, and give them some padding on the top and bottom. Either that, or combine the text into one text string and separate them with \n.

If you're trying to add multiple textviews into one scrollview, it wont work. A scrollview container can only have one child, which is why you need to put the textviews into a linear layout, then place that linear layout into the scrollview.

Example:

<ScrollView>
   <LinearLayout>
      <TextView text=R.string.MyText1 />
      <TextView text=R.string.MyText2 />
      <TextView text=R.string.MyText3 />
   </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

The R.string.MyText will be your paragraphs all copied and pasted into your string resource file with the keys "MyText1", "MyText2", "MyText3", etc.

1- put the article you want to read in a .txt file
2- put it in assets Folder
3- add this to your activity.xml

 <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:maxLines = "10"
        android:scrollbars = "vertical"/>

4- and set this to your TextView in the activity

 TextView txtvue = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2);
        txtvue.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod());
        txtvue.setText( myReader("your.txt"));

5- to get paragraphs from the .txt file use this function

 public String myReader(String fileName) {
        AssetManager assetManager = getResources().getAssets();
        InputStream inputStream;
        try {
            inputStream = assetManager.open(fileName);
            int size = inputStream.available();

            byte[] buffer = new byte[size];

            inputStream.read(buffer);

            inputStream.close();

            // byte buffer into a string
            text = new String(buffer);


        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();

        }

        return text;
    }

Note: Please Do not call myReader(your.txt); in the main view thread it'll cause an error due to the lengthy process of reading text letters