Marquee effect in TextView tutorial

By this post i am gonna teach about How to set Marquee effect in Android Text View.

Design Code (XML)

<RelativeLayout

    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"

    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <TextView

        android:id="@+id/mywidget"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"

        android:lines="1"
        android:singleLine="true"

        android:ellipsize="marquee"

        android:fadingEdge="horizontal"

        android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"

        android:scrollHorizontally="true"

        android:textColor="#ff4500"

        android:text="Simple application that shows how to use marquee, with a long text" />

</RelativeLayout>

Activity Code. 

public class TextViewMarquee extends Activity {

    private TextView tv;

    @Override

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        tv = (TextView) this.findViewById(R.id.tv);  

        tv.setSelected(true);  // Set focus to the textview

// in case if you want to do it this in problematically means please use the below lines.
        textview.setText("your long text");
        textview.setSelected(true);
        textview.setEllipsize(TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
        textview.setSingleLine(true);

    }

}

 Hope this helps . Happy Coding.