Working With Text Controls in Mono for Android

Introduction

1. TextView
2. EditText
3. AutoCompleteTextView
4. MultiCompleteTextView

TextView

• First, create a new android application
  
  
  
  
  
• Go to Main.axml in Resources/Layout and do these changes
  
  
  
  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  3. android:orientation="vertical"
  4. android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  5. android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  6. >
  7. <TextView
  8. android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  9. android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  10. android:text="You can create a number of different Text controls in your Android application.
  11. you can configure, style, and manipulate the controls in a variety of ways, we have so many useful attributes which
  12. we can use within the application to change the style, position etc."
  13. android:textColor="#ff0fffff"
  14. />
  15. <TextView
  16. android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  17. android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  18. android:text="TextView controls are usually included as part of your Activity's layout resource file
  19. TextView have an interesting feature which is automatically create the link based on the content of the Text if
  20. its is an URL, an e-mail or a phone number so that when the user clicks on the textview the default intent whether it is the web browser or the dialer launches."
  21. android:textColor="#ff000fff"
  22. />
  23. </LinearLayout>
      
  In the above code, you see android:text property which is used to insert the text in normal textview and the other property android:textColor used to change the color of the text.
  
  Output
  
  
  
  
  As I said about android:autoLink the property we used with textview to detect whether it is a web, email, phone and address information. like if I write any website URL or any phone number in textview and android:autoLink="all" the property was not used with the textview than the URL shows as simple text and if I use android:autoLink="all" property then it will automatically show as a clickable link.
  
  Change the Main.axml like below to see the effect of android:autoLink="all" property:
  
  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  3. android:orientation="vertical"
  4. android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  5. android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  6. >
  7. <TextView
  8. android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  9. android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  10. android:text="You can create a number of different Text controls in your Android application."
  11. />
  12. <TextView
  13. android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  14. android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  15. android:text="http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/"
  16. android:autoLink="all"
  17. />
  18. <TextView
  19. android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  20. android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  21. android:text="2 659-697-0000"
  22. android:autoLink="all"
  23. />
  24. </LinearLayout>
      
  Output