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Android

Posted by Misha Krul
Misha Krul
6,682 Points

Text wrapping in Android SDK?

I need a bit of help with Android SDK. I'm following along with the tutorial and I'm unable to get the text to wrap to the second line. It's supposed to say, "Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning."

There are a million different text properties on the right panel, and I figure the solution to this is somewhere in that list of attributes, but I am unable to find it. =\

Image for reference: http://imgur.com/a/fIdeZ

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

You have both layout_width and layout_height set to wrap_content which grows or shrinks the the "widget" to fit the content. To get the text to wrap, you need to fix the width. In this case you want layout_width to be match_parent.