EditText - change background color of text (and only text - not the whole view)

Question

When a user enters information in an EditText, and moves to the next EditText, the information is highlighted as shown below:

Answer 1

You can achieve what you want by using a BackgroundColorSpan. You can find more information here:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/style/BackgroundColorSpan.html

To use spans you need to build a SpannableString which you can do using a SpannableStringBuilder:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/SpannableStringBuilder.html