Android TextView Tutorial

In Android, TextView is a user interface control, which is used to display text. It works like a label. By default, the user will not be able to edit the text content.

Attribute	Description
android:id	It is used to uniquely identify the control
android:autoLink	It will automatically found and convert URL(s) and email addresses as clickable links.
android:ems	It is used to make the TextView be exactly this many ems wide.
android:hint	It is used to display the hint text when text is empty
android:width	It makes the TextView be exactly this many pixels wide.
android:height	It makes the TextView be exactly this many pixels tall.
android:text	It is used to display the text.
android:textColor	It is used to change the color of the text.
android:gravity	It is used to specify how to align the text by the view's x and y-axis.
android:maxWidth	It is used to make the TextView be at most this many pixels wide.
android:minWidth	It is used to make the TextView be at least this many pixels wide.
android:textSize	It is used to specify the size of the text.
android:textStyle	It is used to change the style (bold, italic, bolditalic) of text.
android:textAllCaps	It is used to present the text in all CAPS.
android:typeface	It is used to specify the Typeface (normal, sans, serif, monospace) for the text.
android:textColorHighlight	It is used to change the color of text selection highlight.
android:textColorLink	It is used to change the text color of links.
android:inputType	It is used to specify the type of text being placed in text fields.
android:fontFamily	It is used to specify the fontFamily for the text.
android:editable	If we set, it specifies that this TextView has an input method.

android:autoLink

This attribute tells Android to automatically generate links for phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and website addresses found in the TextView text.

Constant	Value	Description
all	f	Match all patterns (equivalent to web|email|phone|map).
email	2	Match email addresses.
map	8	Match map addresses.
none	0	Match no patterns (default).
phone	4	Match phone numbers.
web	1	Match Web URLs

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView_a11"
    android:autoLink="email|phone|map|web"
    android:textColorLink="#FF0000"
    android:text="Contact: +1-1111222233, example@gmail.com. http://abc.com, 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018"
    ... />

Click on Phone Link.

Click on Email Link

Click on Web URL

Click on Address Link (Will open Google Map)

android:ems

This attribute is used to specify a value for the width of the TextView in the EM measurement units. EM is a unit in Typography whose value is the width of the letter "M".

So, android:ems="5" means that it sets the width of the TextView to 5 times as much as the width of the letter "M".

android:text

Specifies the text content for TextView.

android:textColor

Specifies the text color for TextView.

android:textSize

Specifies the font size for the text.

android:textStyle

Specifies a style for the font, which has four values:

1. android:textStyle="normal"  (Default)
2. android:textStyle="bold"
3. android:textStyle="italic"
4. android:textStyle="bold|italic"

android:textAllCaps

This attribute has two values, true/false. With the value of true, the TextView text will be in upper case when displayed. Its default value is false.

android:textColorHighlight

Sets the background color for the selected sub-text. This attribute comes in handy when you use EditText (a subclass of TextView). EditText permits the user to select and edit its text.

android:textColorLink

Specifies the font color for the links in the text. (See more about the android:autoLink attribute).

android:fontFamily

Specifies the font family for the TextView text.

android:editable