TextView Marquee not working

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I have tried to use marquee and its not working here is my code  please let me know where im going wrong   lt TextView    android text  lunch 20 00   Dinner 60 00   Travel 60 00   Doctor 5000 00   lunch 20 00   Dinner 60 00   Travel 60 00   Doctor 5000 00     android id    id TextView02     android layout width  200dip     android layout height  wrap content     android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever     android ellipsize  marquee     android singleLine  true     android focusable  true     android inputType  text     android maxLines  1  gt   lt  TextView gt    i am using android SDK 2 0 1

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To have your own scroll speed and flexibility to customize marquee properties, use the following:

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:fadingEdge="horizontal"
    android:lines="1"
    android:id="@+id/myTextView"
    android:padding="4dp"
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:text="Simple application that shows how to use marquee, with a long text" />

Within your activity:

private void setTranslation() {
        TranslateAnimation tanim = new TranslateAnimation(
                TranslateAnimation.ABSOLUTE, 1.0f * screenWidth,
                TranslateAnimation.ABSOLUTE, -1.0f * screenWidth,
                TranslateAnimation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f,
                TranslateAnimation.ABSOLUTE, 0.0f);
        tanim.setDuration(1000);
        tanim.setInterpolator(new LinearInterpolator());
        tanim.setRepeatCount(Animation.INFINITE);
        tanim.setRepeatMode(Animation.ABSOLUTE);

        textView.startAnimation(tanim);
    }

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Very Simple working code    For infinitely scrolling text                lt TextView             android id    id textView News HeadLine              style   style black extra large heading text              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content              android layout alignParentLeft  true              android layout marginLeft  8dp              android ellipsize  marquee              android marqueeRepeatLimit  -1              android singleLine  true              android text  HeadLine  Banglawash To be Continued    gt     amp  you should must write from your activity  textView setSelected true

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I have created a custom class AlwaysMarqueTextView  public class AlwaysMarqueeTextView extends TextView       protected boolean a       public AlwaysMarqueeTextView Context context                super context           a   false             public AlwaysMarqueeTextView Context context  AttributeSet attributeset                super context  attributeset           a   false             public AlwaysMarqueeTextView Context context  AttributeSet attributeset  int i                super context  attributeset  i           a   false             public boolean isFocused                 return a    super isFocused               public void setAlwaysMarquee boolean flag                setSelected flag           setSingleLine flag           if flag          setEllipsize TruncateAt MARQUEE           a   flag              Override     protected void onFocusChanged boolean focused  int direction  Rect previouslyFocusedRect                 if focused               super onFocusChanged focused  direction  previouslyFocusedRect               Override     public void onWindowFocusChanged boolean focused                if focused              super onWindowFocusChanged focused             And you can startMarquee when desire   like    textView setSelected true   No need of Selection   textview setAlwaysMarquee true

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package com app relativejavawindow   import android os Bundle  import android app Activity  import android graphics Color  import android text TextUtils TruncateAt  import android view Menu  import android widget RelativeLayout  import android widget TextView   public class MainActivity extends Activity       TextView textView        Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           final RelativeLayout relativeLayout   new RelativeLayout this           final RelativeLayout relativeLayoutbotombar   new RelativeLayout this           textView   new TextView this           textView setId 1            RelativeLayout LayoutParams relativlayparamter   new RelativeLayout LayoutParams                  RelativeLayout LayoutParams MATCH PARENT                  RelativeLayout LayoutParams MATCH PARENT            RelativeLayout LayoutParams relativlaybottombar   new RelativeLayout LayoutParams                  RelativeLayout LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT                  RelativeLayout LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT           relativeLayoutbotombar setLayoutParams relativlaybottombar             textView setText  Simple application that shows how to use marquee  with a long             textView setEllipsize TruncateAt MARQUEE           textView setSelected true           textView setSingleLine true             relativeLayout addView relativeLayoutbotombar           relativeLayoutbotombar addView textView             relativeLayoutbotombar setBackgroundColor Color BLACK           setContentView relativeLayout  relativlayparamter                Override     public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu Menu menu               Inflate the menu  this adds items to the action bar if it is present          getMenuInflater   inflate R menu activity main  menu           return true             this code work properly but if ur screen size is not fill this text it will not move try to palcing white space end of text

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Just add those as said above       android singleLine  true       android ellipsize  marquee      android marqueeRepeatLimit   marquee forever    AND   you must use TextView setSelected true  inside your java code    The reason for marquee not working with some of the guys in this article   If you have an input form with an EditText   which is an input   The EditText will be the one with focus and selection by default in the form  Now  if you force it thru TextView setSelected true   TextView will eventually do marquee no matter what    So the whole idea is to make the TextView widget focused and selected to make marquee work

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I ve encountered the same problem  Amith GC s answer the first answer checked as accepted  is right  but sometimes textview setSelected true   doesn t work when the text view can t get the focus all the time  So  to ensure TextView Marquee working  I had to use a custom TextView   public class CustomTextView extends TextView       public CustomTextView Context context            super context             public CustomTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs               public CustomTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyle            super context  attrs  defStyle                 Override     protected void onFocusChanged boolean focused  int direction  Rect previouslyFocusedRect            if focused              super onFocusChanged focused  direction  previouslyFocusedRect               Override     public void onWindowFocusChanged boolean focused            if focused              super onWindowFocusChanged focused                Override     public boolean isFocused             return true            And then  you can use the custom TextView as the scrolling text view in your layout  xml file like this    lt com example myapplication CustomTextView             android id    id tvScrollingMessage              android text   string scrolling message main wish list              android singleLine  true              android ellipsize  marquee              android marqueeRepeatLimit   marquee forever              android focusable  true              android focusableInTouchMode  true              android scrollHorizontally  true              android layout width  match parent              android layout height  40dp              android background   color black              android gravity  center              android textColor   color white              android textSize  15dp              android freezesText  true   gt    NOTE  in the above code snippet com example myapplication is an example package name and should be replaced by your own package name   Hope this will help you  Cheers

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You must add the these attributes which is compulsary to marquee   android ellipsize  marquee        android focusable  true       android focusableInTouchMode  true        android singleLine  true        android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever        android scrollHorizontally  true

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android focusable  true  and android focusableInTouchMode  true  are essential      Because I tested all others without these lines and the result was no marquee  When I add these it started to marquee

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I had gone through this situation where textview marquee was not working  However follow this and I am sure it will work       lt TextView          android id    id tv marquee           android layout width  match parent           android layout height  wrap content           android ellipsize  marquee           android focusable  true           android focusableInTouchMode  true           android freezesText  true           android maxLines  1           android scrollHorizontally  true           android text  This is a sample code of marquee and it works   gt    and programmatically add these 2 lines      tvMarquee setHorizontallyScrolling true   tvMarquee setSelected true     tvMarquee setSelected true  is required incase if any one of the view is already focused and setSelected will make it work  No need to use   android singleLine  true    it is deprecated and above codes works

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Just put these parameters in your TextView  It works         android singleLine  true       android ellipsize  marquee      android marqueeRepeatLimit   marquee forever      android scrollHorizontally  true      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true

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Yes  marquee forever also work in case of fixed width for TextView   e g  android layout width  120dp    Must required attributes are    android focusable  true   android focusableInTouchMode  true  android singleLine  true        if it s missing text appear in multiple line    Working code    lt TextView                 android id    id mediaTitleTV                  android layout width  220dp                  android layout height  wrap content                  android ellipsize  marquee                  android focusable  true                  android focusableInTouchMode  true                  android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever                  android singleLine  true                  android text  Try Marquee  it works with fixed size textview smoothly     gt

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Use the following line in your code   TextView setSelected true

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Working Code    lt TextView     android id    id scroller      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android ellipsize  marquee      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true      android singleLine  true      android text  Some veryyyyy long text with all the characters that cannot fit in screen  it so sad    that I will not scroll      android textAppearance   android attr textAppearanceLarge    gt

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I faced the same problem and this discussion helped me I just replace this line  android maxLines  1    with this line in xml  android singleLine  true    and it works the line txtView setSelected true   was also in my activity

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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    lt TextView              android id    id scroller              android singleLine  true              android ellipsize  marquee              android textAppearance   android attr textAppearanceLarge              android textColor   FFFFFF              android text  Some veryyyyy long text with all the characters that cannot fit in screen  it so sad    that I will not scroll              android layout marginLeft  4dp              android layout weight  3              android layout width  0dp              android layout height  wrap content                gt    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

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lt TextView   android ellipsize  marquee    android singleLine  true         gt    must call in code  textView setSelected true

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working now    Code attached below  lt TextView     android text  quot START   lunch 20 00   Dinner 60 00   Travel 60 00   Doctor 5000 00   lunch 20 00   Dinner 60 00   Travel 60 00   Doctor 5000 00   END quot      android id  quot   id MarqueeText quot       android layout width  quot fill parent quot      android layout height  quot wrap content quot       android singleLine  quot true quot      android ellipsize  quot marquee quot       android marqueeRepeatLimit  quot marquee forever quot      android scrollHorizontally  quot true quot       android paddingLeft  quot 15dip quot       android paddingRight  quot 15dip quot       android focusable  quot true quot       android focusableInTouchMode  quot true quot       android freezesText  quot true quot  gt    Edit  on behalf of Adil Hussain   textView setSelected true  needs to be set in code behind for this to work

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Most of the answers are identical  but also notice that in some cases marquee will not work without specifying of width in dips for the container  For instance if you use weight in parent container   android layout width  0dp  android layout weight  0 5    marquee may not work

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I m working with minSDK 14 and was curious what set of these variations would work   I ended up with   android ellipsize  marquee  android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever  android singleLine  true    in addition to other formatting stuff   I didn t need scrollHoriontally  focusable  or focusableInTouchMode   This set did require a call to   setSelected true    What I find interesting is that singleLine has allegedly been deprecated  with a recommendation to replace it with maxLines   1   Except - when I do that  that change alone stops the text from scrolling   One would hope that when singleLine eventually bites the dust  that all its current behavior will be triggered by maxLines

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These attributes must be included in the textview tag in order to allow scrolling   Everything else is optional   android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true  android layout width  fill parent  android ellipsize  marquee

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