# Material Text View A MaterialTextView is a derivative of AppCompatTextView that displays text to the user. To provide user-editable text, see {@link EditText}. ## Design & API Documentation - [Class definition](https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android/tree/master/lib/java/com/google/android/material/textview/MaterialTextView.java) ## Usage Example code of how to include the component in your layout is listed here for reference. ```xml ``` Note: If you use our full themes (which we recommend), `TextView` will auto-inflate to `MaterialTextView`, otherwise, you will need to specify `