Programming Tutorials

Adding Margins to a TextView Programmatically in Kotlin This code demonstrates how to programmatically add margins to a TextView in an Android application written in Kotlin. It achieves this by modifying the TextView's layout parameters within the onCreate method of the activity. Breakdown: Setting Up: The code defines a MainActivity class that extends AppCompatActivity . It retrieves the layout from the activity_main.xml file using setContentView . A sample string is assigned to the textView variable. Adding Margins Programmatically: The code retrieves the current layout parameters of the textView using a cast to ConstraintLayout.LayoutParams . It then utilizes the apply function to modify the margins directly within the lambda expression. Two approaches are presented: Individually setting each margin using properties like marginStart , topMargin , and marginEnd . Using a single setMargins method with values for left/start, top, right/end, and bottom margins. (N...