How to make a textview scroll vertically?

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I have textview that include a large text and fill the parent layout.but i don't want to use Scrollview and i want to change the textview properties. How Can I scroll the textview Vertically?

Please share the code of your layout and add a screenshot of your problem. — Reaz Murshed, Feb 14 '19 at 05:48

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 14 '19 at 05:56

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You can make textview as a child of scrollView, and make textview as height as wrap content.

edited Feb 14 '19 at 05:56

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answered Feb 14 '19 at 05:49

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This is the best answer I read about how to make a textview scrollable. I tried everything and it wouldn't work until I set height of textview as wrap_content. – Geoffroy CALA Nov 09 '19 at 22:30

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 14 '19 at 05:55

One general way to do this would be wrap your top level layout in a <ScrollView>, something like this:

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/yourScrollView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="60dp">
     <LinearLayout
         android:id="@+id/yourMainLayout"
         android:orientation="vertical"
         android:padding="12dp"                 <!-- add your other content here -->
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content">
     </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Then, inside the above LinearLayout you may add one or more TextView.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 14 '19 at 05:55

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In the textview xml Add this:

android:scrollbars = "vertical"

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answered Feb 14 '19 at 05:50

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How to make a textview scroll vertically?

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