Rich text in a textview

Question

I need create an \"Info\" for my program. I\'d like fill the info text with several colors, style, fonts, ecc.

I found this: http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/androi

Answer 1

I wrote a library over the weekend that handles this, I called it a RichTextView.

The library allows you to format a span of text (make it bold, underline, italic, combination, etc) as well as color it (text color and highlight). In the next release I plan to allow for custom font spans and such as well.

To use it is simple, just add the following dependency to your gradle file:

compile 'com.androidessence.lib:richtextview:1.0.1'

Now, let's say you want to make the first four characters bold, you can simply make the following call:

myRichTextView.formatSpan(0, 4, RichTextView.FormatType.BOLD);

Notice that the end index parameter is not inclusive, so by saying (0 -> 4) we are actually bolding indexes (0 -> 3).

If you would like to do both bold and underline, use an EnumSet:

myRichTextView.formatSpan(0, 4, EnumSet.of(RichTextView.FormatType.BOLD, RichTextView.FormatType.UNDERLINE));

For the latest information please see the Github repository linked above, though I will try to update this answer any time it becomes outdated.