Question

I am working on an android app i want to know how i can make few words in bold regular and few in italic for example i have a textview with a text HELLOO now I want to display the text like this in a text view

HELLOO

please tell me how to achieve this through styles in android??

Answer 1

Say, you have a TextView namely etx, use the following code:

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 final SpannableStringBuilder sb = new SpannableStringBuilder("HELLOO");

        final StyleSpan bss = new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD); // Span to make text bold
        final StyleSpan iss = new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.ITALIC);Span to make text italic
        sb.setSpan(bss, 0, 4, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE); // make first 4 characters Bold 
        sb.setSpan(iss, 4, 6, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE); // make last 2 characters Italic
        etx.setText(sb);

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The main advantage of using this approach is that you can format text dynamically.