android-edittext

How can I apply spans on EditText text when the user is composing? For example the user has activated "bold" when composing, so every character input since then should be bold . I thought about adding text change listener to the EditText and update the text as the user composes, but I wanna know if there's a better way of doing this. The question was already answered in the comments, but to make it more permanent I will add a fuller answer. In order to set a span (like Bold) wherever the user is composing, you just set a span on the text at the cursor (or selection) position. StyleSpan

I want to adjust the line spacing of edittext. I use a long line, and when I cross the line, linespacing is applied. However, linespacing does not apply when I input Enter key. This Library fixed the EditText linespacing issue https://github.com/hanks-zyh/LineHeightEditText use this code for line space between two line android:lineSpacingExtra="10dp" whole code is <EditText android:id="@+id/edittext" android:layout_margin="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:lineSpacingExtra="10dp" //set the line space between 2

I've searched high and low for something that seems to be a simple task. Forgive me, I am coming to Android from other programming languages and am new to this platform and Java. What I want to do is create a dialog pop-up where a user enters text to search for and the code would take that text and search for it within all the text in an EditText control and if it's found, highlight it. I've done this before, for example in VB and it went something similar to this pseudo code: grab the text from the (EditText) assign it to a string search the length of that string (character by character) for