how to bold text in class file in android?

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 String  _body = "sq Home : "+HomeScreen.edt_sqft_home.getText().toString() +"\n"
                        +"Age of Home years : "+HomeScreen.edt_age.getText().toString() +"\n"
                        +"Additional service : "+HomeScreen.output +"\n\n"
                        +"Street Name : "+HomeScreen.edt_streetname.getText().toString() +"\n"
                        +"City : "+HomeScreen.edt_city.getText().toString() +"\n"
                        +"State : "+HomeScreen.edt_state.getText().toString();

hiii i want to bold text which is in "". like "Sq Home","Age of Home Years". how is it posible?? plz help me

Do you want to capitalize first alphabet of every word? (Since you are talking about "sq Home"==>"Sq Home") — Ameer Moaaviah, Apr 04 '13 at 10:36
no,i want to bold only which is shown in red color.. like sq Home : want to bold ?how is it posible? — Google, Apr 04 '13 at 11:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '13 at 10:26

String source = "This is example text";
Spannable out = new SpannedString(source);
StyleSpan boldSpan = new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD);
StyleSpan boldSpan2 = new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD);
out.setSpan(boldSpan, 1, 3, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
out.setSpan(boldSpan2, 9, 12, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '13 at 14:56

If your string is going to be shown in a TextView you can use HTML tags. In your case you only have to do this:

String _body = "<b>sq Home</b>: " + HomeScreen.edt_sqft_home.getText().toString() + "<br/>"
       + "<b>Age of Home years</b>: " + HomeScreen.edt_age.getText().toString() + "<br/>"
       + "<b>Additional service</b>: " + HomeScreen.output + "<br/><br/>"
       + "<b>Street Name</b>: " + HomeScreen.edt_streetname.getText().toString() + "<br/>"
       + "<b>City</b>: " + HomeScreen.edt_city.getText().toString() + "<br/>"
       + "<b>State</b>: " + HomeScreen.edt_state.getText().toString();

TextView yourTextView = findViewById(R.id.yourTextViewId);
yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(_body));

Where yourTextView is the view of your Activity that displays the HTML string.

Mark Murphy wrote a post with the HTML tags supported by TextView.

how to bold text in class file in android?

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