Question

I have a large EditText box. I want a hint in the box to look like this (syntax highlight not intended):

Hint about the first line
Hint about the second line
Hint about the third line

I tried using android:hint="@string/hints" on the EditText with the following in strings.xml, but the hint was still on a single line.

<string name="hints">
Hint about the first line
Hint about the second line
Hint about the third line
</string>

How can one obtain a multiline hint in an EditText?

Answer 1

You can include newlines in strings by explicitly specifying them:

<string name="hint">Manny, Moe and Jack\nThey know what I\'m after.</string>

Newlines in the XML are treated as spaces.