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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 |
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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). |
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:
- android:textStyle="normal" (Default)
- android:textStyle="bold"
- android:textStyle="italic"
- 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.
