Bold words in a string of strings.xml in Android

Question

I have a long text in one of the strings at strings.xml. I want to make bold and change the color of some words in that text.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

As David Olsson has said, you can use HTML in your string resources:

    A string with actual formatting!

Then if you use getText(R.string.my_string) rather than getString(R.string.my_string) you get back a CharSequence rather than a String that contains the formatting embedded.