Question

My problem is this I want to get exact text from Edit text with font that set in Edit text as well as Text size,text color and text style like bold, italic and underline.

till now i used Spannable like this Spannable messageText; and get the text from EditText like this

 messageText = editText.getText();

and set into textview

 textView.setText(messageText);

But in this case it return only the simple string not color,font,size and style.

EditText

   <EditText
        android:id="@+id/message"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="180dp"
        android:inputType="textMultiLine"
        android:singleLine="false"
        android:tag="no"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:textSize="15sp"
        android:textStyle="normal"
        android:typeface="normal" />

TextView

<TextView
            android:id="@+id/preview"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text=""
            android:textColor="#000000"
            android:textSize="15sp"
            android:textStyle="normal"
            android:typeface="normal" />

Help me, Thanks

Answer 1

If you are setting the background color of the edit text like this

 editText.setBackgroundDrawable(new PaintDrawable(Color.YELLOW));

Then,

Do this to get the background color.

PaintDrawable drawable = (PaintDrawable) editText.getBackground();
int color = drawable.getPaint().getColor();

And then set this color to the textView.

textView.setBackgroundColor(color);