TextView with different sizes

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In my layout, I have defined a TextView and have given it the id - textName.

Programmatically, I have set its text to My name is Blah. I was wondering if it is possible to programmatically increase the textsize of just Blah and not the whole TextView?

I am not sure abt this. But this link might help: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1533512/1858914 — , Nov 30 '12 at 10:11
@appubala I thought about that but I don't want to add a separate textView as there are a lot of instances where I want to change the size of just one word in a TextView. Adding another textview to all of them will be tedious — Ankush, Nov 30 '12 at 10:14

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 30 '12 at 10:21

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Or simply using the Spannable class:

String text = textView.getText();
Spannable span = new SpannableString(text);
span.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(1.5f), text.indexOf("Blah"), text.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
textView.setText(span);

answered Nov 30 '12 at 10:21

Adrián Rodríguez

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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Yes!! you can do by formatting the string with HTML, refer https://stackoverflow.com/a/1533512/603233

like eg

String text = "<h5>My name is </h5><h1>Blah</h1>";
yourtextview.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Nov 30 '12 at 10:14

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TextView with different sizes

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