How to add TextView to activity and handle Android TextView click events using Kotlin

Last updated Dec 10, 2021

In this Android example tutorial we will cover how to work with Textview and Textview click events. Android TextView is simply a view that are used to display the text to the user and optionally allow us to modify or edit it.

Implementation:

First of all, open kotlin project in Android Studio.

Add a TextView in activity_main.xml file inside LinearLayout.

 <TextView
              android:id="@+id/text_view_id"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:text="Android Developer"
              android:textSize="40dp"/>

Add attributes in TextView like text, textColor, textSize, textStyle in the activity_main.xml file

To set the color in TextView we will use textColor property.

android:textColor="#FF6200EE"

Here "#FF6200EE" is the code of color.

If you want to make the text Bold, Italic, normal etc. use textStyle property.

android:textStyle="bold"

There are other properties like fontSize, fontFamily, textAlignment, letterSpacing, maxLines, minLines...

android:textSize="40dp"
android:maxLines="3"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:letterSpacing="0.2"
android:minLines="1"

3. Now let's use our TextView inside Activity. To use any view from layout to activity by using its id property

with findViewById() method.

val textView = findViewById(R.id.text_view_id) as TextView

Here R.id.text_view_id is the id of the textView which is defined in activity_main.xml file.

4. Now we can add event listener on TextView by implementing onClickListener to the TextView instance.

textView.setOnClickListener{
Toast.makeText(this@MainActivity, "I am Android Developer", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
}

6. In the above code OnClick of TextView it will display a Toast of 'I am Android Developer'.

Note: Toast is a small message displayed on the screen.

7. Now run the application and you will see the below output.

Output:

Complete source code for Android TextView example:

activity_main.xml file

< android:orientation="vertical"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="match_parent"
   android:gravity="center"
android:background="#FAF5F5"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:text="Android Developer"
   android:textColor="@color/purple_500"
   android:textSize="40dp"
   android:maxLines="3"
android:textAlignment="center"
   android:minLines="1"
/>

MainActivity.kt file

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle import android.widget.TextView
import android.widget.Toast

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
val textView = findViewById(R.id.text_view_id) as TextView
textView.setOnClickListener{
Toast.makeText(this@MainActivity, "I am Android Developer",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()
}
}
}

Conclusion: We have covered how to add TextView in Android and add Click event fot the Textview with kotlin code.

MainActivity.kt file

Conclusion: We have covered how to add TextView in Android and add Click event fot the Textview with kotlin code.

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