Different colors in TextView defined in XML

Question

I want to define different colors in single TextView like below:

<font color="yellow">Hi </font><font color="red">everybody</font>  

I saw this link: Is it possible to have multiple styles inside a TextView?. But it doesn't suit me. I would like to know how can I define it via XML. Is it possible to do this? Thanks

Answer 1

we can't set in XML file but we can set as coding... You have to use text spannable.. here is example..

String text = "Hi @@hello@@";

TextView.setText(setSpanBetweenTokens(text, "@@", new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED)));

your setSpanBetweenTokens Method

public static CharSequence setSpanBetweenTokens(CharSequence text,
            String token, CharacterStyle... cs)
        {
            // Start and end refer to the points where the span will apply
            int tokenLen = token.length();
            int start = text.toString().indexOf(token) + tokenLen;
            int end = text.toString().indexOf(token, start);
        

if (start > -1 && end > -1)

      {               
          SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder(text);
          for (CharacterStyle c : cs)
              ssb.setSpan(c, start, end, 0);

          // Delete the tokens before and after the span
          ssb.delete(end, end + tokenLen);
          ssb.delete(start - tokenLen, start);

          text = ssb;
      }
      return text;
  }