How to add a line break in an Android TextView

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I am trying to add a line break in the TextView   I tried suggested  n but that does nothing  Here is how I set my texts   TextView txtSubTitle    TextView findViewById r id txtSubTitle   txtSubTitle setText Html fromHtml getResources   getString R string sample string       This is my String   lt string name  sample string  gt some test line 1  n some test line 2 lt  string gt   It should show like so   some test line 1 some test line 2   But it shows like so  some test line 1 some test line 2   Am I missing something

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If you re using XML to declare your TextView use android singleLine    false  or in Java  use txtSubTitle setSingleLine false

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I feel like a more complete answer is needed to describe how this works more thoroughly  Firstly  if you need advanced formatting  check the manual on how to use HTML in string resources  Then you can use  lt br  gt   etc  However  this requires setting the text using code  If it s just plain text  there are many ways to escape a newline character  LF  in static string resources  Enclosing the string in double quotes The cleanest way is to enclose the string in double quotes  This will make it so whitespace is interpreted exactly as it appears  not collapsed  Then you can simply use newline normally in this method  don t use indentation    lt string name  quot str1 quot  gt  quot Line 1  Line 2  Line 3  quot  lt  string gt   Note that some characters require special escaping in this mode  such as   quot    The escape sequences below also work in quoted mode  When using a single-line in XML to represent multi-line strings The most elegant way to escape the newline in XML is with its code point  10 or 0xA in hex  by using its XML HTML entity  amp  xA  or  amp  10   This is the XML way to escape any character  However  this seems to work only in quoted mode  Another method is to simply use  n  though it negatively affects legibility  in my opinion  since it s not a special escape sequence in XML  Android Studio doesn t highlight it    lt string name  quot str1 quot  gt  quot Line 1  amp  xA Line 2  amp  10 Line 3  quot  lt  string gt   lt string name  quot str1 quot  gt  quot Line 1  nLine 2  nLine 3  quot  lt  string gt   lt string name  quot str1 quot  gt Line 1  nLine 2  nLine 3  lt  string gt   Do not include a newline or any whitespace after any of these escape sequences  since that will be interpreted as extra space

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n works for me  like this    lt TextView android text  First line nNext line

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You could also use the String-Editor of Android Studio  it automatically generates line brakes and stuff like that

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Try to double-check your localizations   Possible  you trying to edit one file  localization   but actually program using another  just like in my case  The default system language is russian  while I trying to edit english localization   In my case  working solution is to use   n  as line separator        lt string name  string one  gt line one       nline two       nline three  lt  string gt

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The most easy way to do it is to go to values strings  in your resource folder    Declare a string there        lt string name  example string  gt Line 1 Line2 Line n lt  string gt    And in your specific xml file just call the string like       lt TextView     android id    id textView      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android text   string example string    gt

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This worked for me  maybe someone will find out this helpful   TextView textField    TextView  findViewById R id textview1   textField setText  First line of text    System getProperty  line separator      Linija 2

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I use the following   YOUR TEXTVIEW setText  Got some text  n another line

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I m reading my text from a file  so I took a slightly different approach  since adding  n to the file resulted in  n appearing in the text       final TextView textView    TextView  findViewById R id warm up view       StringBuilder sb   new StringBuilder        Scanner scanner   new Scanner getResources   openRawResource R raw warm up file        while  scanner hasNextLine            sb append scanner nextLine           sb append   n               textView setText sb toString

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n was not working for me  I was able to fix the issue by changing the xml to text and building the textview text property like below   android text  Line 1 Line 2 Line 3  DoubleSpace    Hopefully This helps those who have said that  n did not work for them

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try this            TextView calloutContent   new TextView getApplicationContext              calloutContent setTextColor Color BLACK            calloutContent setSingleLine false            calloutContent setLines 2            calloutContent setText   line 1    System getProperty   line separator      line2

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Used Android Studio 0 8 9  The only way worked for me is using  n  Neither wrapping with CDATA nor  lt br gt  or  lt br   gt  worked

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very easy   use   n       String aString1    abcd       String aString2    1234       mSomeTextView setText aString1     n    aString2      n corresponds to ASCII char 0xA  which is  LF  or line feed   r corresponds to ASCII char 0xD  which is  CR  or carriage return  this dates back from the very first typewriters  where you could choose to do only a line feed  and type just a line lower   or a line feed   carriage return  which also moves to the beginning of a line   on Android   java the  n corresponds to a carriage return   line feed  as you would otherwise just  overwrite  the same line

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Linebreaks   n  only work if you put your string resource value in quotes like this    lt string name  sample string  gt  some test line 1  n some test line 2  lt  string gt    It won t do linebreaks if you put it without quotes like this    lt string name  sample string  gt some test line 1  n some test line 2 lt  string gt    yes  it s that easy

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As I know in the previous version of android studio uses separate lines  quot   n  quot  code  But new one  4 1 2  uses  quot  lt br  quot  to separate lines  For example - Old one   lt string name  quot string name quot  gt Sample text 1  n Sample text 2  lt  string gt   New one   lt string name  quot string name quot  gt Sample text 1  lt br  gt  Sample text 2  lt  string gt

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Tried all the above  did some research of my own resulting in the following solution for rendering linefeed escape chars   string   string replace     n   System getProperty  line separator        Using the replace method you need to filter escaped linefeeds  e g     n   Only then each instance of line feed   n  escape chars gets rendered into the actual linefeed    For this example I used a Google Apps Scripting noSQL database  ScriptDb  with JSON formatted data   Cheers  D

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ok figured it out     lt string name  sample string  gt  lt   CDATA some test line 1  lt br   gt some test line 2   gt  lt  string gt    so wrap in CDATA is necessary and breaks added inside as html tags

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Maybe you are able to put the lf into the text  but it doesn t display  Make sure you have enough height for the control  For example   Correct   android layout height  wrap content    May be wrong   android layout height  10dp

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As Html fromHtml deprecated I simply I used this code to get String2 in next line   textView setText fromHtml  String1  lt br  gt  String2           SuppressWarnings  deprecation       public static Spanned fromHtml String html           Spanned result          if  android os Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   android os Build VERSION CODES N                result   Html fromHtml html Html FROM HTML MODE LEGACY             else               result   Html fromHtml html                     return result

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Also you can add   amp lt br amp  47  amp gt   instead of  n   It s HTML escaped code for  lt br  47  gt   And then you can add text to TexView   articleTextView setText Html fromHtml textForTextView

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In my case  I solved this problem by adding the following   android inputType  textMultiLine

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There are two ways around this  If you use your string as a raw string  you need to use the newline character  If you use it as html  e g  by parsing it with Html fromString  the second variant is better  1  Newline character  n  lt string name  quot sample quot  gt This nis a sample lt  string gt   2  Html newline tag  lt br gt  or  lt br   gt   lt string name  quot sample quot  gt This lt br gt is a sample lt  string gt

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Use text break like this   n     lt string name  sample string  gt  lt   CDATA some test line 1  n some test line 2   gt  lt  string gt

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Android version 1 6 does not recognize  r n  Instead  use  System getProperty   line separator    String s    Line 1               System getProperty   line separator                 Line 2               System getProperty   line separator

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I found another method  Is necessary to add the  android maxWidth  40dp   attribute  Of course  it may not work perfectly  but it gives a line break

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This worked for me   android text  First  n Second

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