Thanks Hari that was what I was looking for. The same goes for strings right? So what ever size could be put in a string can be put in a edittext? Or should I use string[] for that instead of a normal string?
On Jan 26, 8:05 pm, Hari Edo <hari....@gmail.com> wrote: > I think Andre was looking for a design limit, not how to set one. > > The control can handle many pages of text, even with spanning styled > markup. The EULA which I saw on one Android tablet was shown in a > simple text view, and it was about fifty pages of text on the tablet. > (The EditText control should have the same limits as the TextView, > as the EditText is just some additional features on the basic view.) > > The answer is "how much memory can you allocate?" Of course > the system needs to allocate resources to measure and typeset and > render all of that text. If it's too long, consider showing the text > in pages or chunks. > > On Jan 26, 1:05 pm, Marcin Orlowski <webnet.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 26 January 2011 18:27, André <pha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Is there a limit on how many characters and or lines you can have in > > > an edittext? Or is it unlimited? > > >http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#a... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
