In an app, instead of using a textview, we can use a webview. Why? Because webview is better looking. And, more importantly, we can format the text easily - specifically for long, long text. And, yes, it has an automatic scroll controls. Now how do we display a static text in a webview? String str="your text here"; webview.loadData(str,"text/html",null); But your string should also have html tags in them. The simplest tags are html and body. So surround your string with these. String str="your text here"; String str = "<html><body>"+str+"</body>"; webview.loadData(str,"text/html",null); But if you are using for formatting the text, like bold , italic , different font etc. to be used for some parts of the text? How do you get that done? The straight forward solution is learn html and hand code all the B 's and slash B's etc. yourself. Of course, I am kidding. There are plent