If you want to use HTML, you need to use TextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(String htmlString))
If you want to do that often / repeatedly, you may have a look at a class (SpannableBuilder) I wrote, as Html.fromHtml() is not very efficient (it is using a big xml parsing machinery inside). It is described in this blog posting.
TextView TV = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mytextview01);
Spannable WordtoSpan = new SpannableString("I know just how to whisper, And I know just how to cry,I know just where to find the answers");
WordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 15, 30, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
TV.setText(WordtoSpan);
final SpannableStringBuilder sb = new SpannableStringBuilder("your text here");
// Span to set text color to some RGB value
final ForegroundColorSpan fcs = new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.rgb(158, 158, 158));
// Span to make text bold
final StyleSpan bss = new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD);
// Set the text color for first 4 characters
sb.setSpan(fcs, 0, 4, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
// make them also bold
sb.setSpan(bss, 0, 4, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
yourTextView.setText(sb);
int color = context.getResources().getColor(android.R.color.holo_blue_light);
String string = context.getString(R.string.test_string, color);
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(string));
This way, only the "Test" part will be colored (and bold).
public static void setColorForPath(Spannable spannable, String[] paths, int color) {
for (int i = 0; i < paths.length; i++) {
int indexOfPath = spannable.toString().indexOf(paths[i]);
if (indexOfPath == -1) {
continue;
}
spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(color), indexOfPath,
indexOfPath + paths[i].length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
}
}
Using
Spannable spannable = new SpannableString("Your big island ADVENTURE");
Utils.setColorForPath(spannable, new String[] { "big", "ADVENTURE" }, Color.BLUE);
textView.setText(spannable);
I like to use SpannableStringBuilder by appending the different spans one by one, rather than calling setSpan by calculating the string lengths
as: (Kotlin code)
val amountSpannableString = SpannableString("₹$amount").apply {
// text color
setSpan(ForegroundColorSpan("#FD0025".parseColor()), 0, length, 0)
// text size
setSpan(AbsoluteSizeSpan(AMOUNT_SIZE_IN_SP.spToPx(context)), 0, length, 0)
// font medium
setSpan(TypefaceSpan(context.getString(R.string.font_roboto_medium)), 0, length, 0)
}
val spannable: Spannable = SpannableStringBuilder().apply {
// append the different spans one by one
// rather than calling setSpan by calculating the string lengths
append(TEXT_BEFORE_AMOUNT)
append(amountSpannableString)
append(TEXT_AFTER_AMOUNT)
}
If you do not want to get in trouble on lower SDK version use SpannableStringBuilder with ForegroundColorSpan or BackgroundColorSpan as HtmlCompat.fromHtml color style does not applied on older Android version.
fun CharSequence.colorizeText(
textPartToColorize: CharSequence,
@ColorInt color: Int
): CharSequence = SpannableString(this).apply {
val startIndexOfText = this.indexOf(textPartToColorize.toString())
setSpan(ForegroundColorSpan(color), startIndexOfText, startIndexOfText.plus(textPartToColorize.length), 0)
}
Usage:
val colorizedText = "this text will be colorized"
val myTextToColorize = "some text, $colorizedText continue normal text".colorizeText(colorizedText,ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.someColor))