Question

is it possible to format an item text in the Listview so it would look for example like this:

part of string is bold and part is not

Thanks

Answer 1

Yea, you’d just have to have two different textviews, one for the bold text, and one for the unbolded text. So you’d have a layout for each row that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  android:orientation="horizontal"
>
   <TextView android:id="@+id/bold_field"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="fill_parent"
     android:textStyle="bold"
   />
   <TextView android:id="@+id/non_bold_field"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="fill_parent"
   />
</LinearLayout>

Then you’d use a SimpleAdapter to map the appropriate pieces of the string to each TextView. If you want the string to appear seamless, you’ll probably have to mess around with the gravity of the TextViews.