#android-textview

Fixed How to make a background transparent 20% in android #dev #it #asnwer

How to make a background transparent 20% in android

I want to make background of a Textview about 20% transparent (not fully transparent), where there is a color in the background (i.e. white)?

Answer: How to make a background transparent 20% in android

use a color with alpha value like this #33 and set it as background of your editText using the xml attribute android:background=" "

0%…

Android Paint: .measureText() vs .getTextBounds()

I’m measuring text using Paint.getTextBounds(), since I’m interested in getting both the height and width of the text to be rendered. However, the actual text rendered is always a bit wider than the .width() of the Rect information filled by getTextBounds().

To my surprise, I tested .measureText(), and found that it returns a different (higher)…

Fixed How to set the font style to bold, italic and underlined in an Android TextView? #dev #it #asnwer

How to set the font style to bold, italic and underlined in an Android TextView?

I want to make a TextView‘s content bold, italic and underlined. I tried the following code and it works, but doesn’t underline.

<Textview android:textStyle="bold|italic" ..

How do I do it? Any quick ideas?

Answer: How to set the font style to bold, italic and underlined in an Android TextView?

I don’t know about…

Fixed Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View? #dev #it #asnwer

Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View?

I have a TextView and I’d like to add a black border along its top and bottom borders. I tried adding android:drawableTop and android:drawableBottom to the TextView, but that only caused the entire view to become black.

Fixed Set TextView style (bold or italic) #dev #it #asnwer

Set TextView style (bold or italic)

How to set TextView style (bold ot italic) with in Java and without using XML layout?

In other words I need to write android:textStyle with Java.

Answer: Set TextView style (bold or italic)

You have two options:

Option 1 (only works for bold, italic and underline):

String s = "Bolded text, italic text, even underlined!" TextView tv =…

Fixed How to display HTML in TextView? #dev #it #asnwer

How to display HTML in TextView?

I have simple HTML:

<h2>Title</h2><br> <p>description here</p>

I want to display it in TextView. How to do this???

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer: How to display HTML in TextView?

You need to use Html.fromHtml() to use HTML in your XML Strings. Simply referencing a String with HTML in your layout XML will not work.

For example:

myTextView.setText(Html.fr…

How to: What is meant by Ems? (Android TextView)

What is meant by Ems? (Android TextView)

What is meant by Ems (related to a TextView)? For example in

android:ems setEms(int)

Makes the TextView be exactly this many ems wide.

Answer: What is meant by Ems? (Android TextView)

TextView ems meaning

In TextView there is an attribute named android:ems. The description is “Makes the TextView be exactly this many ems wide”

Note :but only when the…

Fixed How do I make links in a TextView clickable? #dev #it #asnwer

How do I make links in a TextView clickable?

I have the following TextView defined:

<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/txtCredits" android:autoLink="web" android:id="@+id/infoTxtCredits" android:layout_centerInParent="true" android:linksClickable="true"></TextView>

where @string/txtCredits is a string resource that contains L…