Apps java code for plain text

[pathanos]

I wanna show text, not just one line, but several. How do I do this? Also some of these will be codes (that I do not want to be coded, just show the code). Codes like HTML and CSS.

 

[jonbonazza]

Just make a TextView and set the text to the text you want to show. TextViews wrap by default.

 

[pathanos]

That just seems like long and difficult way with little option to edit individual words.

 

[LexiconStudios]

Definitely declare the text view and change the text programmatically. Using setText() on your text view can too clunky depending on your text, but append() works very nicely by adding the text to what's already in the text view. You'll need "\n" for a new line of text of course and probably setText("") at the beginning of your loop to clear the text fresh.

Editing individual words isn't perfect, but by using append() you can do it fairly easily

MyTextView.setText("");;
MyTextView.append("John really enjoys ");
if(John likes hamburgers)

MyTextView.append("hamburgers.");​

else if(John likes hot dogs)

MyTextView.append("hotdogs.");​

MyTextView.append("\nYum!");

This will give you

John really enjoys hamburgers.
Yum!

or

John really enjoys hotdogs.
Yum!

So you haven't exactly picked out the word and changed it, but you can code it in such a way that you make the if statements around the individual words.

Putting in HTML and CSS code shouldn't be an issue.