Question

in my App I am using marquee for some TextViews. Usually the text only scrolls in one direction when it can’t be displayed completely.
What I want is that the view scrolls to the left until the end of the text is visible, then stops for a second and scrolls back to the right.
I’am pretty sure that this can’t be achieved with the standard marquee stuff. What would be the right approach here? Can I implement my own marquee behavior? How is that done in general?

Answer 1

Here is the relevant code in Android that handles the Marquee. It’s pretty tightly coupled to the TextView class, so if you wanted to implement a custom marquee I believe you would need to write your own TextView.