 <p>Marquee is problematic. When TextView (or the Window containing the TextView)loses focus the marquee is stopped and reset (see the sources for TextView). I guess you have 3 possible solutions here:</p> <ol> <li>You can set <code>android:focusable="false"</code> in all other Views in your layout. That way your TextView shouldn't lose focus. But that's probably not the solution you want. </li> <li>You can subclass TextView and change <code>onFocusChanged()</code> and <code>onWindowFocusChanged()</code> to prevent marquee from being stopped and reset.</li> <li>Create your own implementation of marquee.</li> </ol>