Question

I had two strings:

<string name="bigtext">Big text</string>
<string name="anothertext">Small text</string>

I need them both in EditText’s android:hint.

I tried to combine them & put “Big text” into <b>Big text</b>:

<string name="test">"<b>Big text</b> \nSmall text"</string>

“Big text” is bold, yep. But how to specify that “Big text” should have bigger font than “Small text”?

Answer 1

Add <big> tags around the big text. Or, if you prefer, add <small> tags around the small text. However, those will not work in a string resource AFAIK — you would need to have this string in Java code or something, using Html.fromHtml() to get the SpannedString you would feed to setHint() on EditText.