Set color of TextView span in Android

Question

Is it possible to set the color of just span of text in a TextView?

I would like to do something similar to the Twitter app, in which a part of the text is blue. See

Answer 1

1. create textview in ur layout

2. paste this code in ur MainActivity

   TextView textview=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textviewid);
   Spannable spannable=new SpannableString("Hello my name is sunil");
   spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 0, 5, 
   Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
   textview.setText(spannable);
   //Note:- the 0,5 is the size of colour which u want to give the strring
   //0,5 means it give colour to starting from h and ending with space i.e.(hello), if you want to change size and colour u can easily