Question

I am trying to simply put a few paragraphs on the screen with xml that you can scroll through vertically because they are too big to see them all. I have tried many different things but can’t figure it out.

Answer 1

I’m adding on to what John said above. You want a linearlayout inside a scrollview to achieve this.

Something like the following:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <LinearLayout
       android:layout_width="fill_parent"
       android:layout_height="fill_parent"
       android:orientation="vertical">
       <TextView
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="fill_parent"
         android:text="Paragraph 1\n\nParagraph2\n\nParagraph 3"/>
   </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

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