Material text view

A material text view is a derivative of AppCompatTextView that displays text to the user. To provide user-editable text, see EditText.

Key properties

Attributes

MaterialTextView supports all of the standard attributes that can be changed for a AppCompatTextView. Unlike the AppCompatTextView which supports specifying the line height only in a view layout XML, MaterialTextView supports the ability to read the line height from a TextAppearance style, which can be applied to the MaterialTextView either using the style attribute or using the android:textAppearance attribute.

The following additional attributes can be changed in TextAppearance and applied to a MaterialTextView:

Code implementation

API and source code:

• MaterialTextView

  • Class description
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  Note: If you use our full themes (which we recommend), TextView will auto-inflate to MaterialTextView, otherwise, you will need to specify <com.google.android.material.textview.MaterialTextView in your xml.

Example code of how to include the component in your layout is listed here for reference.

<LinearLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <TextView
      android:id="@+id/text_view_id"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:text="@string/hello" />
</LinearLayout>