How to make the first character much larger than other in a TextView

Question

I would like to display a paragraph of long text as follow. Here is the snapshot from Flipboard.

Answer 1

By using a single TextView with BufferType.SPANNABLE will solve the problem.

final SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString(title);
int position = 0;
for (int i = 0, ei = title.length(); i < ei; i++) {
    char c = title.charAt(i);
    if ((c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') || (c >= '0' && c <= '9')) {
        position = i;
        break;
    }
}
spannableString.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(2.0f), position, position + 1, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
//titleTextView.setText(spannableString.toString());
titleTextView.setText(spannableString, BufferType.SPANNABLE);