How to increase font size of some part of string in android?

Question

I want increase font size of some part of the string before set to text view. Means My string is "Hello Stack over flow". Then I want font size of over is larger than other words and its bold.

You can use a Spannable String – Raghunandan Mar 14 '14 at 07:30 — Raghunandan, Mar 14 '14 at 07:30
http://stackoverflow.com/a/9842023/1937802 – Tamilselvan Kalimuthu Mar 14 '14 at 07:31 — Tamilselvan Kalimuthu, Mar 14 '14 at 07:31

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '14 at 07:34

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Do something like below,

 String str="<small>Hello Stack</small><big>Over</big>flow";
 textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(str));

answered Mar 14 '14 at 07:34

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anywhere to see the variation of sizes? bigger? biggest? – NVA Jul 19 '18 at 21:22

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

You can use a SpannableString

Example :

TextView tv = new TextView(this);
String string= "Hello";
String title="MyTitle";
SpannableString ss1=  new SpannableString(string);
ss1.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(2f), 0, ss1.length(), 0);
tv.append(ss1);
tv.append(title);
setContentView(tv);

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You may also check

Using size HTML attribute in TextView

Searching for supported html tags

http://commonsware.com/blog/Android/2010/05/26/html-tags-supported-by-textview.html

http://bigknol.com/android-supported-html-tags-textview-string/

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 14 '14 at 07:36

you can use html string to make some part bold for example

private String getHtmlText(String boldString,String restString){

    String htmlString = "<b>" +boldString +"</b> "  + restString;

    return htmlString;
}

and then setText using Html.fromHtml(htmlString) like

  yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getHtmlText(textBold,textNormal)));

How to increase font size of some part of string in android?

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