TextView Marquee not working [duplicate]

Answer 1

android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"

are the only required attributes and scrolling even works with layout_weight defined with layout_width=0dp

here is some sample code:

But what is most important is implicitely or explicitely TextView should get selected.

You can do this with:

TextView txtView=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.scroller);
txtView.setSelected(true);