Android TextView Text not getting wrapped

Question

Can anyone tell me what\'s going wrong with the text? Text longer than one line doesn\'t wrap to the next line but goes beyond the screen.

Following is the code:

Answer 1

I could not get any of these solutions working when using a TableLayout>TableRow>TextView. I then found TableLayout.shrinkColumns="*". The only other solution that worked was forcing the TextView to layout_width:250px etc but i don't like forcing widths like that.

Try something like this if working with tables.

Note you need shrinkColumns="*"

This is obviously within a . So something like

references:

TableLayout

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4000

Hope that helps someone.