Multiline TextView with width “wrap_content”

Question

I am wondering how to have a TextView display its content on several lines without hardcoding the width in the XML.

Answer 1

I think I had very similar problem. I had a TextView with a text, where I was not sure how much lines will it take. It was encapsulated by a LinearLayout having android:layout_width="match_parent" to ensure my text will fill out all the space horizontally. However, the problem was that my text did not fit into 1 line and when it did break into a new line, the next view component below it did not move downwards to give enough space for the second line to be viewable fully.

I could achieve the solution by changing the LinearLayout that was containing my TextView into a RelativeLayout. By this way, the element below the text (actually below the Layout itself) was moved automatically to give enough space for the multi-line text.