How to wrap text in textview in Android

Question

Does any one know how to wrap text in TextView in Android platform. i.e if the text in textview exceed the screen length it should be displayed in the second line.

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Answer 1

For the case where the TextView is inside a TableLayout, the solution is to set android:shrinkColumns="1" on the TableLayout. (Replace 1 with the column number the TextView you want to wrap is in. (0-indexed))

AFAICT, no other attributes are needed on the TextView.

For other cases, see the other answers here.

FWIW, I had initially gotten it to sort of work with

but that resulted in some extra empty space at the bottom of the Dialog it was all in.