I needed a TextView to take the rest of the screen realstate. This TextView would behave as a logging component.
I tried using android:singleLine=”false” but that didn’t cut it.

What I did:
Add a ScrollView (with android:fillViewport=”true” and android:layout_weight=”1″), then add a LinearLayout (yup…), and then add the TextView to fill all of that up (android:layout_weight=”1″ too)

Here’s the only thing that worked for me:

	<ScrollView android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
                              android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                              android:layout_weight="1" android:fillViewport="true">
		<LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
		<TextView android:text="@+id/TextView01" 
			android:id="@+id/logTextView" 
			android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
			android:layout_height="fill_parent"
			android:textColor="#000"
			android:background="#fff"
			android:layout_weight="1"></TextView>
		</LinearLayout>
	</ScrollView>

Then on your Activity, do this:

_logTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.logTextView);
_logTextView.setText("");

//and here comes the magic
_logTextView.setMovementMethod(ScrollingMovementMethod.getInstance());

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