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

Try this.

Layout XML

Activity class

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private String inputString = "op British supermarket Tesco (LSE: TSCO) (NASDAQOTH: TSCDY.US) is due to announce its half year results on and this is the extra bit of spill text";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);


    TextView bigChar = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.bigChar);
    final TextView sideText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.sideText);
    final TextView spillText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.spillText);


    ViewTreeObserver vto = sideText.getViewTreeObserver();
    vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
           Layout layout = sideText.getLayout();  
           int numOfLines = layout.getLineEnd(2);

           // split the string now
           String spillTextString = inputString.substring(numOfLines, inputString.length());
           spillText.setText(spillTextString);
        }
    });
}
}