I want to display an ordered list inside a TextView, for example:
 1) item 1
 2) item 2  
Using the following layout:
         
Here is a solution I use. You can copy and paste it into an activity to see how it works, but you should change all attributes with variables for production. You can play with the padding parameters to indent it according to your needs. Instead of digits, you can use the bullet char if you want bullet list.