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Softening a TextView edges

I need to add a scrollable android TextView, which will show alot of text.
I want to achieve this kind of effect:
But I found no way of doing so.
Is there any good way of doing it?
Thank you!

try below properties to TextView
android:requiresFadingEdge="vertical"
android:fadingEdgeLength="32dp" //To change the gradient overlay height

The most convient way of doing this is creating a drawable. You can either make your own image in the image editing software of your choice or create a GradientDrawable. Make sure the colors go from white to transparent. Then place this drawable on top of the textview near the bottom.

Highlight-style effect with multiline text in Android

What I would like to achieve is an effect that looks like this with a TextView:
Basically having a background, but keeping the space between the lines. The only solution I came up with was using one TextView for each line of text, but I would prefer a cleaner one using only one multiline TextView.
Any ideas?

Use spanned text for each line. Read the Spannable API.

please refer to this answer here as it describes how to implement spacing between multiple lines in a TextView , using the following properties :
android:lineSpacingMultiplier
android:lineSpacingExtra
Hope that Helps .
Regards

What you can do is use mark tag in html to textview.
myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<mark>heading highlighted</mark>"));

Creating multiline Edit view in android with coding

I have created an EditText object dynamically but I haven't been able to create a multi-line EditText. I have tried this:
EditText et1 = new EditText(this);
et1.setHint("Enter Your Address");
et1.setSingleLine(false);
et1.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
et1.setInputType(android.text.InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_POSTAL_ADDRESS);
et1.setLines(7);
Thanks.

Include this in your code:
et1.setMaxLines(maxlines);
Or you can set the specific height for the edit text.

If you want the text to wrap to the next line, add TYPE_CLASS_TEXT to the MULTI_LINE flag:
textArea.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT|InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE);

It is the line:
et1.setInputType(android.text.InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_POSTAL_ADDRESS);
that is the problem. Take that out.
setMaxLines doesn't matter much unless you want to set a max number of lines. You should also avoid setting the height to something specific. WRAP_CONTENT works great.
Even changing it to:
et1.setInputType(android.text.InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE);
forces it to a single line edit, which seems odd.
This doesn't work either:
et1.setInputType(android.text.InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_SENTENCES);
which is really freakin irritating. Seems like an android bug...
You also might want to set the vertical scroll on and gravity so it can scroll up and down and starts in the top left.
et1.setGravity(Gravity.TOP|Gravity.LEFT);
et1.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(true);

What worked for me is:
et1.setSingleLine(false);
et1.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
et1.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(true);
et1.setMinLines(minLines);

android making superscript text in textview got cutted

i have a layout containing multiple TextViews containing text with superscript... to make a portion superscript in text i have used <sup>superscript text</sup> tag in string.xml within text the problem here is my text got cutted in emulator view i have also tried to add padding but output is same nthing is working for it like , changing margin,padding,font size...please help here below is image what i get on emulator........

Make it like this.
< sup>< small>superscript text< /small>< /sup>

A further problem remains: the superscripted text is not properly scaled, i.e. font size reduced.
So padding is just a weak solution to a bug in the proper rendering of a [super|sub]script.
I am investigating a fix for this...will see.

if you want small superscript text than you can use
<sup>< small>text< /small>< /sup>
if you want to more small than you can use <small> tag twice like below
<sup><small><small>text</small></small>< /sup>

Settings background for EDITTEXT cutting words in Android

I am having a strange issue, the words are cutting inside EDITTEXT i have set an image as background. Plz help me... for example here ffsds, is being cut, I want it to shift to bit right so that it doesnt get cut.

Increase paddingLeft value of edit text.
...
android:paddingLeft="100dp"
...
in xml layout.

Increasing the left padding is the easy solution. But if this smiley image is always on the left of the edittext, you can set the image by using the attribute android:drawableLeft on the edittext.