Question

I see there is a TextAppearanceSpan available but no examples on usage. I just want to make the text bold and leave everything else unchanged – is there perhaps a simpler way to do this programmatically?

Answer 1

All you need is to create an xml file in res/values and write something like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="header">
        /** here goes the style */
    </style>
</resources>

Then all your need is to pass generated R.style.header to the TextAppearanceSpan constructor.