Textview not scrolling inside custom listview

android, listview

Solution

Use custom class as shown below and

 public class MyTextView extends TextView{

 public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        init();
        rotate();
    }

    public MyTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init();
        rotate();
    }

    public MyTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init();
        rotate();
    }

    private void rotate() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        setSelected(true);
    }

    private void init() {
        if (!isInEditMode()) {

        }
    }


  }

add it in xml file for custome listview like shown below

    <Your Package Name.MyTextView
    android:layout_marginTop="10dip" android:id="@+id/tv_parse"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:textSize="22px"
        android:textColor="#34A4c5"
        android:ellipsize="marquee"
        android:maxWidth="220dp" 
        android:fadingEdge="horizontal"
        android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
        android:scrollHorizontally="true"  
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:layout_marginRight="10dp"></Your Package Name.MyTextView>

Problem

I tried a lot for having scrolling text horizontally inside a listview. i want one of my textview to scroll horizontally automatically like marquee iam able to set horizontal scroll bar and scroll on touching it as ``` TVad.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod()); ``` This is my xml file ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> ``` ``` <TextView android:id="@+id/tvinboxname" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/tvinboxmsg" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="@+id/tvinboxname" android:maxLength="10" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/tvtimeStamp" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_below="@+id/tvinboxmsg" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/tvadmsg" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="@+id/tvtimeStamp" android:ellipsize="marquee" android:focusableInTouchMode="true" android:inputType="text" android:focusable="true" android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever" android:lines="1" android:scrollHorizontally="true" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" android:textColor="#330066" /> ``` and in my getview method ``` // @Override public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { convertView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.inboxtextviews, null); Tvname = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tvinboxname); Tvname.setText(VCAESInboxWithOutCheckboxes.Inboxlist.get(position) .getname()); TVmsg = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tvinboxmsg); TVmsg.setText(VCAESInboxWithOutCheckboxes.Inboxlist.get(position) .getmessage()); TVtimeStamp = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tvtimeStamp); TVtimeStamp.setText(VCAESInboxWithOutCheckboxes.Inboxlist.get( position).getTimeStamp()); TVad= (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tvadmsg); TVad.setText(VCAESInboxWithOutCheckboxes.Inboxlist.get( position).getAd()); TVad.setSelected(true); ); return convertView; } ``` i searched a lot on this in stackoverflow and not able to display the scrolling text.

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