Multiline TextView in Android?

I like neither of the answers. Simply set the inputType and the TextView will adapt to its content

<TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:inputType="textMultiLine"/>

Tested on a Nexus One (2.3) and Nexus 4 (4.4)

you can use android:inputType="textMultiLine"

  <TextView android:id="@+id/address1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="left"
    android:maxLines="4" 
    android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:text="Johar Mor, Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi" />

Simplest Way

<TableRow>
    <TextView android:id="@+id/address1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:maxLines="4" 
        android:singleLine="false"              
        android:text="Johar Mor,\n Gulistan-e-Johar,\n Karachi" >
    </TextView> 
</TableRow>

Use \n where you want to insert a new line Hopefully it will help you

I hope these answers are little bit old, just change the input type in resource layout file will solve your problem. For example:

<EditText
        android:id="@+id/notesInput"
        android:hint="Notes"
        android:inputType="textMultiLine"
/>

You can do this with TableRow, see below code

<TableRow >
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_description_heading"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:padding="8dp"
        android:text="@string/rating_review"
        android:textColor="@color/black"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv_description"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="left"
        android:maxLines="4"`enter code here`
        android:padding="8dp"
        android:text="The food test was very good."
        android:textColor="@color/black"
        android:textColorHint="@color/hint_text_color" />
</TableRow>

The key is a Textview with singleline=false (which yes is deprecated, but is a must have to work) combined with lines, maxlinesor minlines

<TextView
                android:id="@+id/txtBowlers"
                style="@style/Default_TextBox.Small"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
                android:singleLine="false"
                android:maxLines="6"
                android:text="Bob\nSally\nJohn"
                app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
                app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
                app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/txtTeamName"
                app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/txtTeamName"/>

Below code can work for Single line and Multi-line textview

isMultiLine = If true then Textview showing with Multi-line otherwise single line

    if (isMultiLine) {
        textView.setElegantTextHeight(true);
        textView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE);
        textView.setSingleLine(false);
        
    } else {
        textView.setSingleLine(true);
        textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
    }

no need to add anything just use "\n" at the points where you want to change the lines e.g

<TextView android:id="@+id/kyc_verify_textbox"

    android:layout_width="370dp"
    android:layout_height="99dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="6dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="13dp"

    android:text="For KYC verification, \n please submit: \n 1 RC photo \n 2 Truck Owner Details \n Note:Both are mandatory for KYC verification"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/divider2"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/divider" />

for me non of the solutions did not work. I know it is not a complete answer for this question, but sometimes it can help.

I put 4 textviews in a vertical linearlayout.

<Linearlayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation:"vertical"

    ...>
    <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text:"line1"
       .../>
    <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text:"line2"
       .../>
    <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text:"line3"
       .../>
    <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text:"line4"
       .../>
</LinearLayout>

This solution is good for cases that the text view text is constant, like labels.