How to insert drawables in text

Question

I want to insert small pictures, like arrow icons for example, into certain positions of contents of a TextView.

The photo below depicts exactly what I

Answer 1

You can create SpannableString and add any object to your string

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);

ImageSpan imageSpan = new ImageSpan(this, R.drawable.ic_launcher);
SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString(textView.getText());

int start = 3;
int end = 4;
int flag = 0;
spannableString.setSpan(imageSpan, start, end, flag);

textView.setText(spannableString);