How to create Ticker (marquee text)

If you want marquee text in your application, here is the simplest example.

In your xml-layout file, add this to your TextView

android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"

and in your code to start animation:

TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv);
tv.setSelected(true);

Via the API:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:ellipsize

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:marqueeRepeatLimit