auto-scrolling TextView in android to bring text into view

Question

I have a TextView that I\'m dynamically adding text to.

in my main.xml file I have the properties set to make my max lines 19 and scrollbar

Answer 1

(2017) using Kotlin:

// you need this to enable scrolling:
mTextView.movementMethod = ScrollingMovementMethod()
// to enable horizontal scrolling, that means word wrapping off:
mTextView.setHorizontallyScrolling(true)
...
mTextView.text = "Some long long very long text content"
mTextView.post {
     val scrollAmount = mTextView.layout.getLineTop(mTextView.lineCount) - mTextView.height
     mTextView.scrollTo(0, scrollAmount)
}

This works file for me