How do I add a newline to a TextView in Android

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When I define a TextView in xml  how do I add a new line to it   n seems not to work    lt TextView    android id    id txtTitlevalue     android text  Line1   n-Line2 n-Line3     android layout width  54dip     android layout height  fill parent     android textSize  11px    gt

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I just solve the same problem  put below attributes in xml  android lines  2  android maxLines  4  android singleLine  false    work Html fromHtml  text1  lt br gt  text2   toString   also work

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First  put this in your textview   android maxLines  10    Then use  n in the text of your textview   maxLines makes the TextView be at most this many lines tall  You may choose another number

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for the new line in TextView just add  n in middle of your text it works

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I think this has something to do with your HTM fromHtml subTitle  call  a   n  doesn t mean bupkis to HTML   Try  lt br  gt  instead of   n

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You need to put  n in the file string xml    lt string name  strtextparkcar  gt press Park my Car to store location  n lt  string gt

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For me the solution was to add the following line to the layout    lt LinearLayout     xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools               gt    And  n shows up as a new line in the visual editor  Hope it helps

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Programatically  myTV setText  My Text        n    myString

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android text  Previous Line  amp  10  Next Line     This will work

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Also you can add   amp lt br amp gt  instead of  n   And then you can add text to TexView   articleTextView setText Html fromHtml textForTextView

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RuDrA05 s answer is good  When I edit the XML on eclipse it does not work  but when I edit the XML with notepad   it DOES work   The same thing is happening if I read a txt file saved with eclipse or notepad    Maybe is related to the encoding

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This solved my problem   stringVar replaceAll      n       n

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Make sure you are using your package R and not android R

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Go to values gt  strings inside add string          CHOOSE YOUR CATEGORY  n TO WATCH  use  quot  n quot  to add new line then add the string name inside the text view android text  quot  string category quot

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Try this    android text  Lorem Ipsum  nDolor Ait Amet  nLorem Ipsum

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Don t trust the Visual editor  Your code does work in the emu

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Side note  Capitalising text using  android inputType  textCapCharacters   or similar seems to stop the  n from working

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My 2 cents  using Android TV   Add  n in XML strings  while reading   public void setSubtitle String subtitle        this subtitle   subtitle replace    n   System getProperty  line separator

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Need to keep   1 android maxLines  no of lines   2 And use  n for getting of the next Lines

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If you debug  you will see that the string is actually     r   n  or     n   ie  it is escaped  So if you massage that string  to get rid of the extra    you will have your solution  This is true especially if you are reading from a database

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try System getProperty  line separator

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Make sure your  n is in   n  for it to work

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Just try   Textview name settext  something  n  new line       In Java file

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System getProperty  line separator    this work for me

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Create a string in your stings xml   lt resources gt               lt string name  new line  gt  u000A lt  string gt   lt  resources gt    Then in you code reference the string  val linkString    This is in the first line   getString R string new line  This is on the second line

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lt TextView    android id    id txtTitlevalue     android text  Line1   r n-Line2 r n-Line3     android layout width  54dip     android layout height  fill parent     android textSize  11px    gt    I think this will work

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Tried all the above  did some research of my own resulting in the following solution for rendering line feed 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 formated data   Cheers  D

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Try    android lines  2    n should work

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You need to put the   n  in the strings xml file not within the page layout

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This works fine  Check it for your app     lt TextView android layout width  wrap content  android layout height  wrap content  android text  Text 1 nText 2 nText 3   gt

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If the TextView is in any Layout  LinearLayout for example   try to change the orientation attribute to vertical as android orientation  vertical  for the layout or change the TextView attribute android singleLine  true  to create a new line after it

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One way of doing this is using Html tags    txtTitlevalue setText Html fromHtml  Line1    lt br gt    Line2       lt br gt    Line3

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