Marquee text in Android

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How can I use marquee text in an android application

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Add Below Code in XML       lt TextView     android text  Shops NearBy textdf fsdgsdgsdg dsgtsgsdgsdgsg      android id    id txtEventName      android ellipsize  marquee      android marqueeRepeatLimit   marquee forever      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true      android scrollHorizontally  true      android singleLine  true   gt    In Java add following Code       TextView txtEventName  TextView findViewById R id txtEventName       txtEventName setSelected true

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This is my xml customTextView Object here you can use simply TextView to replace on Tag     lt com wedoapps crickethisabkitab utils view montserrat CustomTextView                 android id    id lblRateUsPlayStore                  android layout width  match parent                  android layout height  wrap content                  android layout marginTop   dimen  10sdp                  android layout marginBottom   dimen  10sdp                  android layout marginStart   dimen  5sdp                  android layout marginEnd   dimen  5sdp                  android text   string please rate us 5 star on play store                  android textAllCaps  false                  android textColor   color green                  android textSize   dimen  25ssp                  android textStyle  bold                  android visibility  visible                  android linksClickable  true                  android autoLink  web phone   gt    And here is My Java File code  i have set my html text on server just replace your text on textview object  i have put this code is marquee tag with clickable if any links on this textview to open mobile or webBrowser   CustomTextView lblRateUsPlayStore   findViewById R id lblRateUsPlayStore   lblRateUsPlayStore setMovementMethod LinkMovementMethod getInstance                             lblRateUsPlayStore setText  Html fromHtml documentSnapshot getString  DisplayText                              TextViewCompat setAutoSizeTextTypeUniformWithConfiguration lblRateUsPlayStore  12  20  2  1                            lblRateUsPlayStore setEllipsize TextUtils TruncateAt MARQUEE                               Set marquee repeat limit  unlimited                          lblRateUsPlayStore setMarqueeRepeatLimit -1                           lblRateUsPlayStore setHorizontallyScrolling true                           lblRateUsPlayStore setSelected true                           lblRateUsPlayStore setLinksClickable true                           lblRateUsPlayStore setFocusableInTouchMode true                           lblRateUsPlayStore setFocusable true

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Use this to set Marque       final TextView tx    TextView  findViewById R id textView1       tx setEllipsize TruncateAt MARQUEE       tx setSelected true       tx setSingleLine true       tx setText  Marquee needs only three things to make it run and these three things are mentioned above       You do not need to use  android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever  into xml file  Marquee will work even without this

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As well as the XML settings identified by droidgren  my tests have shown that if the text you want to display is shorter than the width of the textview  then the marquee won t scroll at all  Possible solutions are to set the width of the view to a size smaller than the length of the text  or to concatenate the string to itself 2 or 3 times  with perhaps appropriate whitespace in-between so that the scrolling looks ok

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Just put these params to your TextView - It works  D  android singleLine  true  android ellipsize  marquee  android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever  android scrollHorizontally  true  android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true    And you also need to setSelected true    my TextView setSelected true     Greetings  Christopher

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To get this to work  I had to use ALL three of the things  ellipsize  selected  and singleLine  mentioned already   TextView tv    TextView findViewById R id someTextView   tv setSelected true   tv setEllipsize TruncateAt MARQUEE   tv setSingleLine true

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Xml code    lt TextView             android id    id txtTicker              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content              android layout centerHorizontal  true              android layout gravity  center horizontal              android ellipsize  marquee              android focusable  true              android focusableInTouchMode  true              android freezesText  true              android gravity  center horizontal              android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever              android paddingLeft  5dip              android paddingRight  5dip              android scrollHorizontally  true              android shadowColor   FF0000              android shadowDx  1 5              android shadowDy  1 3              android shadowRadius  1 6              android singleLine  true              android textColor   android color white              android textSize  20sp              android textStyle  bold   gt           lt  TextView gt    Java  txtEventName setSelected true     if text is small then add space before and after text  txtEventName setText   t  t  t  t  t  t  eventName   t  t  t  t  t  t

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TextView textView    TextView  this findViewById R id textview marquee     textView setEllipsize TruncateAt MARQUEE   textView setText  General Information    general information    General Information    textView setSelected true   textView setSingleLine true

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You can use   android ellipsize  marquee    with your textview   But remember to put focus on the desired textview

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I found a Problem with marquee that it can t be used for short strings As its function is only to Show Long strings   I suggest Use Webview If you want to move short strings horizontally  Main Activity java Code           WebView webView           webView    WebView findViewById R id web             String summary    quot  lt html gt  lt FONT color   fdb728  FACE  courier  gt  lt marquee behavior  scroll  direction  left  scrollamount 10 gt  quot                     quot Hello Droid quot     quot  lt  marquee gt  lt  FONT gt  lt  html gt  quot            webView loadData summary   quot text html quot    quot utf-8 quot       Set focus to the textview    main activity xml code   lt WebView         android layout width  quot match parent quot          android layout height  quot wrap content quot          android id  quot   id web quot           gt  lt  WebView gt

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For setting Marquee programatically  TextView textView    TextView  this findViewById R id textview marquee     textView setEllipsize TruncateAt MARQUEE   textView setMarqueeRepeatLimit -1   textView setText  General Information    general information    General Information    textView setSelected true   textView setSingleLine true

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This will be equivalent to  end    where   TruncateAt END

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android ellipsize  marquee    This only works when your TextView has the focus

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You can use a TextView or your custom TextView  The latter is when the textview cannot get focus all the time   First  you can use a TextView or a 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   Then in case of using CustomTextView  you should define the CustomTextView class   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                    Hope it will be helpful to you  Cheers

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In XML file  you need to add following additional attributes in a TextView to get a marquee like feature   android ellipsize  marquee  android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever  android scrollHorizontally  true  android singleLine  true    In MainActivity java file  you can get the reference of this TextView by using findViewById   and you can set the following property to this TextView to make it appear like a marquee text   setSelected true     That s all you need

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With the above answer  you cannot set the speed or have flexibility for customizing the text view functionality  To have your own scroll speed and flexibility to customize marquee properties  use the following     lt 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    gt    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    set the duration         tanim setInterpolator new LinearInterpolator             tanim setRepeatCount Animation INFINITE           tanim setRepeatMode Animation ABSOLUTE            textView startAnimation tanim

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Lots of answers correctly state that calling textView setSelected true  is required  However  if preferred to do so just via XML  one option could be to make use of the Binding Adapters when working with Data Binding   So  just create a new adapter similar to    BindingAdapter  app autoStartMarquee   fun setAutoStartMarquee textView  TextView  autoStartMarquee  Boolean        textView isSelected   autoStartMarquee     Then  you can simply use it in the XML as follows        lt TextView             android ellipsize  marquee      android singleLine  true      app autoStartMarquee    true    gt        No need to call it from code anymore

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I have tried all of the above  but for me its didn t work  When I add  android clickable  true    then it s worked perfectly for me  I don t know why  But I am happy to work it   Here is my full answer   android layout width  match parent  android layout height  wrap content  android singleLine  true  android ellipsize  marquee  android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true   android clickable  true

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Here is an example  public class TextViewMarquee extends Activity       private TextView tv       Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout main           tv    TextView  this findViewById R id mywidget             tv setSelected true       Set focus to the textview          The xml file with the textview   lt RelativeLayout     xmlns android  quot http   schemas android com apk res android quot      android layout width  quot fill parent quot      android layout height  quot fill parent quot  gt       lt TextView         android id  quot   id mywidget quot          android layout width  quot wrap content quot          android layout height  quot wrap content quot          android layout alignParentRight  quot true quot          android singleLine  quot true quot          android ellipsize  quot marquee quot          android fadingEdge  quot horizontal quot          android marqueeRepeatLimit  quot marquee forever quot          android scrollHorizontally  quot true quot          android textColor  quot  ff4500 quot          android text  quot Simple application that shows how to use marquee  with a long text quot    gt   lt  RelativeLayout gt

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