How to create a TextArea in Android

Question

How do I display a TextArea for my android project? From xml, the only choice is TextField, multi lined. But thats editable. I need a TextArea which is only for displaying messa

Answer 1

Its really simple, write this code in XML:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/fname"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="First Name"
/>

Answer 2

Try this:

<EditText
        android:id="@+id/edit_text"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="150dp"
        android:inputType="text|textMultiLine"
        android:gravity="top"/>

Answer 3

<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="100dp">
<EditText
    android:id="@+id/question_input"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:ems="10"
    android:inputType="text|textMultiLine"
    android:lineSpacingExtra="5sp"
    android:padding="5dp"
    android:textAlignment="textEnd"
    android:typeface="normal" />

</android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

Answer 4

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/comments_textbox"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="comments"
    android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:longClickable="false" />

use it to create multi line text box like textArea in Html

Answer 5

If you do not want to allow user to enter text TextView is the best option here. Any how you can also add EditText for this purpose. here is a sample code for that.

This would automatically show scrollbar if there is more text than the specified lines.

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:lines="8"
    android:maxLines="10"
    android:minLines="6"
    android:scrollbars="vertical" />

Edit: Adding attributes below to textView would make it a textArea that would not be editable.

android:lines="8"
android:maxLines="10"
android:minLines="6" // optional