Question

Is to possible to have changing text color of multiple text strings in the same TextView? Using Html.fromHtml is not working:

textViewPrevChat.append("\n"+Html.fromHtml("<b>Bold string </b>")+somestringhere);

It is printing whole thing in bold. Also, the color attribute in <p> is not working.

Answer 1

You should use a SpannableString for this. Here is an example method implementing this:

-This example changes the color of one half of a string, and adjusts the size of another section of the String:

public static SpannableString categoryText(String label, String text, int colorIn) {
        String strIn = label + " " + text;
        SpannableString ss = new SpannableString(strIn);        
        ss.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(colorIn), 0, label.length(), SpannableString.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
        ss.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(.80f), 0, label.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

        return ss;
    }