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How can I print while loop results in textView in Kotlin

I have a "for-loop" in Kotlin which is going to run my code 6 times.
I also have a textView on the app and want to see these 6 results shown there.
I can easily println() the results.
However, If I set the text of textView to these results, it only gets the last result.
What I like to do printing out all 5 results in textView (suggestedNums ) as each result is a separate line.
Is it even possible?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
for (i in 1..6) {
val s: MutableSet<Int> = mutableSetOf()
//create 5 numbers from numbers
while (s.size < 5) {
val rnd = (numbers).random()
s.add(rnd)
}
// remove all 5 random numbers from numbers list.
numbers.removeAll(s)
// sort 5 random numbers and println
println(s.sorted())
// set suggestedNums text to "s"
suggestedNums.text = s.sorted().toString()
}

You can do it in 2 ways
replace
suggestedNums.text = s.sorted().toString()
with
suggestedNums.text = suggestedNums.text.toString() + "\n" + s.sorted().toString()
Create a string and append the results with "\n" and set the text outside the for loop

How to detect line breaks in TextView

In my Android App I've created 8 TextViews stacked on top of each other. Now I want to load in some plain text into those TextView-Lines. At the moment my Strings have a ";" as delimiter to indicate a line break, however it would be much more convenient if I would detect a linebreak automatically instead of using the hardcoded semicolon approach.
This is my String at the moment:
myString = "" +
"This seems to be some sort of spaceship,;" +
"the designs on the walls appear to be of;" +
"earth origin. It looks very clean here.;"
And in my other class I load in this string into the 8 TextViews, which I've loaded into an ArrayList, using the ";" as a delimiter.
public fun fillLines(myString: String) {
// How To Make Line Breaks Automatic??
for(i: Int in str until myString.split(";").size) {
if(i > textViewArray.size - 1) {
break
}
textViewArray[i].text = myString.split(";")[i]
textViewArray[i].alpha = 1.0f
}
}
Is there any way I can get the same result as shown above but without hardcoding the delimiter as ";" but instead somehow automatically detect the line break which would occur inside the TextView and then use this as a delimiter to advance through all 8 TextView "Lines".
The reason I need 8 TextViews Stacked On top of each other as individual "text lines" is because of an animation technique I want to use.

Line-breaking gets fairly complicated, so my recommendation would be that you allow a TextView to perform the measuring and layout to determine the line breaks. You could have an invisible TextView with the same style as your other views, and attach it to the layout so that it has the same width as your individual TextView instances. From there, add a layout change listener, and you can then retrieve the individual lines from the TextView Layout:
myTextView.text = // your text string here
myTextView.addOnLayoutChangeListener { view, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _ ->
(view as? TextView)?.layout?.let { layout ->
// Here you'll have the individual broken lines:
val lines = (0 until layout.lineCount).map {
layout.text.subSequence(layout.getLineStart(it), layout.getLineVisibleEnd(it)
}
}
}
That said, this comes with the caveat that you'll lose out on hyphenation provided by the TextView, so you may wish to disable hyphenation entirely in your case.

You could fill text view with html. Below example.
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
tvDocument.setText(Html.fromHtml(bodyData,Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
} else {
tvDocument.setText(Html.fromHtml(bodyData));
}
If your delimiter ; it is possible call method replaceAll(";", "<br>");

Ok I got it working now:
First you must add these properties for the textviews:
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="none"
Then you can do this:
public fun fillStorylines() {
val linecap = 46
var finalLine: String
var restChars = ""
val index = 9999
val text1: String = "" +
"This seems to be some sort of spaceship, " +
"the designs on the walls appear to be of " +
"earth origin. It looks very clean here. "
for(j: Int in 0..index) {
try {
finalLine = ""
val lines: List<String> = (restChars + text1.chunked(linecap)[j]).split(" ")
for (i: Int in 0 until lines.size - 1) {
finalLine += lines[i] + " "
}
textViewArray[j].text = finalLine
textViewArray[j].alpha = 1.0f
restChars = lines[lines.size - 1]
} catch (ex: Exception) {
break
}
}
}
If anyone knows a more elegant way to solve this please go ahead, your feedback is appreciated :)

find arabic word in a string with Nunation

i want find a Arabic word with Nunation in a TextView and highlight this,
for example if my word is "اشهد" whitout Nunation i want to find word position in "وَ اَشْهَدُ اَنْ لا اِلهَ اِلاَّ اللَّهُ" with Nunation .

Hi Please see below class i created. It is so basic and did not bother about memory consumption. You guys can optimise yourself.
http://freshinfresh.com/sample/ABHArabicDiacritics.java
If you want to check without nunation(harakath) contains in an arabic String,
ABHArabicDiacritics objSearchd = new ABHArabicDiacritics();
objSearchdobjSearch.getDiacriticinsensitive("وَ اَشْهَدُ اَنْ لا اِلهَ اِلاَّ اللَّهُ").contains("اشهد");
If you want to return Highlighed or redColored searched portion in String.
Use below code
ABHArabicDiacritics objSearch = new ABHArabicDiacritics( وَ اَشْهَدُ اَنْ لا اِلهَ اِلاَّ اللَّهُ, اشهد);
SpannableString spoutput=objSearch.getSearchHighlightedSpan();
textView.setText(spoutput);
To see start and end position of search text,
Use below methods,
/** to serch Contains */
objSearch.isContain();//
objSearch.getSearchHighlightedSpan();
objSearch.getSearchTextStartPosition();
objSearch.getSearchTextEndPosition();
Please copy shared java class and enjoy.
I will spend more time for more feature if you guys request.
Thanks

search ولد in INPUT :
public void RegexMatches() {
String INPUT ="ى لَیْلَهِ تَمامِهِ وَکَمالِهِ فَما کانَتْ اِلاّ ساعَهً وَاِذا بِوَلَدِىَ الْحَسَنِ قَدْ" ;
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("و[\\u064B-\\u064F\\u0650-\\u0656]*ل[\\u064B-\\u064F\\u0650-\\u0656]*د");
Matcher m = p.matcher(INPUT); // get a matcher object
int count = 0;
while(m.find()) {
count++;
System.out.println("Match number "+count);
System.out.println("start(): "+m.start());
System.out.println("end(): "+m.end());
}
}

Determine if content in editText is a "." ONLY

I have written a calculator type app. My mates found that entering single decimal points only into the editText's makes the app crash. Decimal numbers and integers work fine, but I get a number format exception when .'s are entered.
I want to check if a single . has been placed in an editText, in order for me to display a toast telling the user to stop trying to crash the app.
My issue is that a . doesn't have a numerical value...

You can wrap it in a try/catch which should be done anyway when parsing text. So something like
try
{
int someInt = Integer.parseInt(et.getText().toString());
// other code
}
catch (NumberFormatException e)
{
// notify user with Toast, alert, etc...
}
This way it will protect against any number format exception and will make the code more reusable later on.

You can treat .1 as 0.1 by the following.
String text = et.getText().toString();
int len = text.length();
// Do noting if edit text just contains a "." without numbers
if(len==0 || (len==1 && text.charAt(0).equals(".")))
return;
if(text.charAt(0).equals(".") && text.length() > 1) {
text = "0" + text;
}
// Do your parsing and calculations

HTML Formatted String inserting into TextViews and EditText

All,
I have a database that will store an HTML tagged text to retain formatting information from an EditText. I create this string using HTML.toHtml(EditText.getText). I notice this method wraps whatever Spanned Text is put in it with <p> and </p>. The issue with that is when I got to use the method HTML.fromHtml(HTMLFormattedString) and then use the setText method of either a TextView or EditText there are two extra lines at the end of my actual text, which makes sense because that is how the paragraph tag works with HTML.
My question is is there anyway to make the textView or EditText shrink to not display the extra blank lines? What is the simplest way to do this? I have experimented with just removing the last <p> and </p>, but that only works if the user did not enter 3 or more new lines with the return key.

I ended up searching for white space at the end of the spanned text that was created and removed it. This took care of extra spaces due to the <p> </p> and was less time consuming than overriding the mentioned class to achieve the same results.
public SpannableStringBuilder trimTrailingWhitespace(
SpannableStringBuilder spannableString) {
if (spannableString == null)
return new SpannableStringBuilder("");
int i = spannableString.length();
// loop back to the first non-whitespace character
while (--i >= 0 && Character.isWhitespace(spannableString.charAt(i))) {
}
return new SpannableStringBuilder(spannableString.subSequence(0, i + 1));
}

Well this is just a round about approach. I had the same issue. And you are provided with two options,
1)As you said that paragraph tag works the way what you have suspected. What it does , it appends two "\n" values to the end of each <\p> tag. So you can convert the html to string and remove the last two characters which are usually two "\n"s
or
2) You have get into the Html Class itself. That is, you have to override the HTML class and look for handleP(SpannableStringBuilder text) and change its core logic a little bit.
private static void handleP(SpannableStringBuilder text) {
int len = text.length();
if (len >= 1 && text.charAt(len - 1) == '\n') {
if (len >= 2 && text.charAt(len - 2) == '\n') {
return;
}
text.append("\n");
return;
}
if (len != 0) {
text.append("\n\n");
}
}
As you can see here, it appends two "\n" in len!=0 which is were you have to do the change.