Material Design Team 4a5da9a391 [Docs] Updated Material Text View doc to make it more user friendly
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# Material text view
A material text view is a derivative of `AppCompatTextView` that displays text
to the user. To provide user-editable text, see
[EditText](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/EditText).
## Key properties
### Attributes
`MaterialTextView` supports all of the standard attributes that can be changed
for a
[`AppCompatTextView`](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/AppCompatTextView).
Unlike the `AppCompatTextView` which supports specifying the line height only in
a view layout XML, `MaterialTextView` supports the ability to read the line
height from a `TextAppearance` style, which can be applied to the
`MaterialTextView` either using the `style` attribute or using the
`android:textAppearance` attribute.
The following additional attributes can be changed in `TextAppearance` and
applied to a `MaterialTextView`:
Feature | Relevant attributes
----------- | --------------------
Line Height | `android:lineHeight`
## Code implementation
API and source code:
* `MaterialTextView`
* [Class description](https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/material/textview/MaterialTextView)
* [Class source](https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android/tree/master/lib/java/com/google/android/material/textview/MaterialTextView.java)
**Note:** If you use our full themes (which we recommend), `TextView` will
auto-inflate to `MaterialTextView`, otherwise, you will need to specify
`<com.google.android.material.textview.MaterialTextView` in your xml.
Example code of how to include the component in your layout is listed here for
reference.
```xml
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/text_view_id"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/hello" />
</LinearLayout>
```