2 different colors for Text in same text view in android

Question

I have a TextView widget, as shown below

<TextView 
        android:text="@string/inputText"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1" />

The inputText is defined in Strings.xml as

<String name="inputText">The value of input is positive now</String>

Now, I want the whole text to be displayed in Brown color, and only 'positive' in green color.

Is there any way to do so ? in brief my question is multiple coloring for same textview at the same time

Have You tried http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Spannable.html or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6279441/can-textview-have-letters-in-different-colors?rq=1? — sandrstar, Feb 27 '13 at 12:06

score 15 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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this is a dublicate of this question Change text color of one word in a TextView.

String first = "This word is ";
String next = "<font color='#EE0000'>red</font>";
t.setText(Html.fromHtml(first + next));

edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

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answered Feb 27 '13 at 12:10

M4tchB0X3r

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Oh, didnt see the other one, anyways thank you. – Feb 27 '13 at 12:22
then mark as answered ;) – M4tchB0X3r Feb 27 '13 at 12:45
This does not work anymore (tested on 4.2.2 device) – Marcel Falliere Feb 09 '15 at 14:27
this should be marked as accepted answer – chip Oct 28 '15 at 06:47
Here is an update : The color value should not contains Alpha channel ! – Tobliug Jun 13 '16 at 17:08

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 12:11

You could use CDATA inside your strings.xml to store your string with some HTML formatting, and Html.fromHTML to have this displayed within your TextView.

strings.xml

<string name="inputText">
    <![CDATA[
      <p>The value of input is <font color='#00ff00'>positive</font> now.</p>
    ]]>
</string>

Java Code

myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.inputText));

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 12:10

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Use this approach: formate the String with html

String text = "<font color=#cc0029>Text with Color first</font> <font color=#ffcc00>Text with Color second</font>";
yourtextview.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));

answered Feb 27 '13 at 12:10

Shiv

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 12:18

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Use Spannable to do that:

String text = "<font color='brown'>The value of input is </font><font color='green'> positive </font><font color='brown'> color </font>";
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(text), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

answered Feb 27 '13 at 12:18

KDeogharkar

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 12:21

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Try this one,

TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mytextview01);

SpannableString WordtoSpan = tv.getText();

WordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.GREEN), 23, 30, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

tv.setText(WordtoSpan);

answered Feb 27 '13 at 12:21

Ajit

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2 different colors for Text in same text view in android

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