Is there a way to hide text in a TextView?

Question

Is there a way to hide some (but not all) of the text in a TextView? I tried setting the size to 0 with AbsoluteSizeSpan, but that doesn\'t have any visual effect that I see.

Answer 1

I've figured out a way. Let's use SpannableString and Color.TRANSPARENT

For example: <> Original text : "Hello dude"

<> Expected text : "_____ dude"

• Here i will use Kotlin:

val spannableString = SpannableString("Hello dude")

spannableString.setSpan(ForegroundColorSpan(Color.TRANSPARENT), 0, 5, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE)

yourTextView.text = spannableString