Can textview have letters in different colors? [duplicate]

Question

I want to display '123' but 1 in red color 2 in green and 3 in black ... Is that possible, or is there any other recommended way of displaying different text color in the same textview...

Danieldaniela

I dont have the code but it can be done using html text – Harass

why that ?? you make a linearlayout and inflate texteview insade has many as you want :D – Calyces

Answer 1

Ah I found it use below code

myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(html text having 1 in red 2 in green and so on));

I dont know web so you better consult someone who can write html for you :P

Harass

tnx , here is something more coplete String styledText ="<font color='red'>asd</font>"; cache.timeView.setText(Html.fromHtml(styledText) ); – Danieldaniela

I don't think that using html is the right way to go. – Uncrowned

Why does the html is not the right way @Kaj? – Caraviello

Answer 2

Yes, you can have different colors in different places of the text if you are using SpannableString. Example:

SpannableString text = new SpannableString("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet");  
// make "Lorem" (characters 0 to 5) red  
text.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 0, 5, 0);  
textView.setText(text, BufferType.SPANNABLE);

There's a more complete example here.

Javadoc for SpannableString

Uncrowned

Your answer should be marked as the correct one (not that the one marked correct is not, but I find this one the right approach). – Sportsmanship

I couldn't get this to work. The text comes out all black, even though one of the letters should be colored. What does the flag 0 even mean? It's not defined in the Spanned class. – Poachy

Answer 3

You can prints lines with multiple colors without html like this:)

TextView TV = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mytextview01);

  Spannable WordtoSpan = new SpannableString("Your message");        

WordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 0, WordtoSpan .length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

TV.setText(WordtoSpan);

Maury