setting multiline text on Android EditText widget

Question

I read a multiline text from a .txt file, then I setText, but all linefeeds are gone, what am I missing? ( editor has android:inputType="textMultiLine" set):

BufferedReader r;
r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(AbrarFilePaths.NotebooksPath() + fileName));
StringBuilder total = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while((line = r.readLine()) != null) 
  { total.append(line);}
editor.setText(total);

Answer 1

Try using:

while((line = r.readLine()) != null) 
  { total.append(line + "\n");}
editor.setText(total);

And set MaxLines to 1000 for example. It worked for me.

Answer 2

I dont think EditText can detect New Line character. You might have to build a custom component to handle that

Answer 3

Set this property in your xml file android:maxLines=" 10" 10 lines in edittext.

or you can try

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/msgText"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:textSize="18sp"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dip"
    android:scrollbarAlwaysDrawVerticalTrack="true"
    android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:layout_height="150dip"
    android:gravity="top"
    android:padding="5dip">
</EditText>