Question

I’m making a fake command-line system for a fun app, and I want to show the input and output in the same TextView, like this:

>something
>something else
>even more stuff
>etcetera.

I already figured out how to store the text from the EditText into a string and add \n and >, but I can’t use strings for the whole thing: to avoid clogging up RAM, I’d like to delete lines after, say 50? I figured that would be much easier to do using Lists.

However, this doesn’t work:

log.setText((CharSequence) logText);

But what will?

Answer 1

Maybe you can put all your strings in a list, an each time you add one, recreate a single string from the list which contains all your items, and affect it to your textview.