Question

I am developing an application using android 2.1. creating a widget for it, I have created a simple widget having text view layout, big font. I want to add the scrollable view so if text goes out of boxes, user can scroll. But whenever I add tag. Widget doesn’t work, any solution?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@android:color/background_light"
    android:layout_margin="5sp"
    >

        <ScrollView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
            >

            <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
                android:text="slkjflasjdlkfjaslkjflksjf  saldjfslkjdflksf lskjdflkasjdlkfjsa lkfklsa dfsakldjfksajdfkljasdklfjlaksdfkla sdlf askj fljsalfk aslkjfklsdjf lksadkfjsadkljf lksadjkf sadlkjfksa jfkljs dklfj skldjf klsadjkflsa dklfj sadkl fklsadj fklasdj kfjsa dklfjsadkljfklasdjklfsjadfjklsadj;as;fdjaljfd;klajd;klfaklsdjfkas fljldfjasdfjiojsdkljfiowejfisdklfkldjf k kljsedjr ilejicjdisfkeriejfcsdijioerfid cvisdjis kl jiowejfliwejlwjfkjdlkfjsjr i  sijflessdf;lejfdejcjwejfij nlkefi ewijtioejifeiofrjiowejflie vilejeijioejfeojvolijsljfoisdjie ff iejieifiejfswjiflisijiejeifjeilfjelis fs ijfis efjsijfilesjflsjlfe sif j"
                android:textSize="15sp"
                />

        </ScrollView>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

From the documentation

Creating the App Widget layout is simple if you’re familiar with
Layouts. However, you must be aware that App Widget layouts are based
on RemoteViews, which do not support every kind of layout or view
widget.

A RemoteViews object (and, consequently, an App Widget) can support
the following layout classes:

FrameLayout
LinearLayout
RelativeLayout
GridLayout

And the following widget classes:

AnalogClock
Button
Chronometer
ImageButton
ImageView
ProgressBar
TextView
ViewFlipper
ListView
GridView
StackView
AdapterViewFlipper

Descendants of these classes are not supported.

RemoteViews also supports ViewStub, which is an invisible, zero-sized View you can use to lazily inflate layout resources at runtime.

So no, ScrollView is not supported in Widgets.