how do I highlight the searched text in my search filter?

Question

I am trying to do a search such that all the \"visible\" search letters should be highlighted. I tried using spannable but that didn\'t do the trick, maybe I wasnt doing it

Answer 1

This is only demo for highlight text, you can implement your self by calling highlight(searchText, originalText) in filter,

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
EditText editText;
TextView text;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
    text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);

    editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                text.setText(highlight(editText.getText().toString(), text.getText().toString()));
        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

        }
    });

}

public static CharSequence highlight(String search, String originalText) {
    String normalizedText = Normalizer.normalize(originalText, Normalizer.Form.NFD).replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "").toLowerCase();
    int start = normalizedText.indexOf(search);
    if (start <= 0) {
        return originalText;
    } else {
        Spannable highlighted = new SpannableString(originalText);
        while (start > 0) {
            int spanStart = Math.min(start, originalText.length());
            int spanEnd = Math.min(start + search.length(), originalText.length());
            highlighted.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(Color.YELLOW), spanStart, spanEnd, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            start = normalizedText.indexOf(search, spanEnd);
        }
        return highlighted;
    }
 }
}