Appearance
Material Text View
Using text views
A MaterialTextView is a derivative of AppCompatTextView that displays text to the user. To provide user-editable text, see EditText.
Design and API Documentation
MaterialTextView
Usage
Example code of how to include the component in your layout is listed here for reference.
xml
<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>
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.
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
:
Feature | Relevant attributes |
---|---|
Line Height | android:lineHeight |