I need to create a String placed in a TextView that will display a string like this:
First Part Not Bold BOLD rest not bold
So I want to know how I could use SpannableStringBuilder
to do this?
I could use three TextEdit to accomplish this but I would like to use best solution.
First Part Not Bold BOLD rest not bold
You can do this either as @Rajesh suggested or by this.
String normalBefore= "First Part Not Bold ";
String normalBOLD= "BOLD ";
String normalAfter= "rest not bold";
String finalString= normalBefore+normalBOLD+normalAfter;
Spannable sb = new SpannableString( finalString );
sb.setSpan(new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD), finalString.indexOf(normalBOLD)+ normalBOLD.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); //bold
sb.setSpan(new AbsoluteSizeSpan(intSize), finalString.indexOf(normalBOLD)+ normalBOLD.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);//resize size
to show this in TextView
textview.setText(sb, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
The accepted answer is fine (and I upvoted it), but it fails to use the SpannableStringBuilder as the submitter requested. As I had a case where the Builder made the most sense, here is the code for that (with a bonus use of also changing the color of the text if that is helpful to others). Note that you could also provide the initial string to the SpannableStringBuilder constructor, but I set it here to use "append" to be clear that you can append a lot before your desired "bold" text and then just record the start as shown. I would suspect that this is also faster code than the accepted answer.
SpannableStringBuilder longDescription = new SpannableStringBuilder();
longDescription.append("First Part Not Bold ");
int start = longDescription.length();
longDescription.append("BOLD");
longDescription.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(0xFFCC5500), start, longDescription.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
longDescription.setSpan(new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD), start, longDescription.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
longDescription.append(" rest not bold");
From API 21 SpannableStringBuilder includes a simple method to do this. Here is a solution example:
SpannableStringBuilder builder= new SpannableStringBuilder();
StyleSpan boldSpan = new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD);
builder.append("First Part Not Bold ")
.append("BOLD ", boldSpan, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE)
.append("rest not bold");
Since it is a good chance you do not support API 21 only you can duplicate the code from that method:
public SpannableStringBuilder append(CharSequence text, Object what, int flags) {
int start = length();
append(text);
setSpan(what, start, length(), flags);
return this;
}
If you are using Kotlin you can do the following using the android-ktx library
val s = SpannableStringBuilder()
.append("First Part Not Bold ")
.bold { append("BOLD") }
.append("Rest not bold")
The bold
is an extension function on SpannableStringBuilder
. You can see the documentation here for a list of operations you can use.
Another example:
val s = SpannableStringBuilder()
.color(green, { append("Green text ") })
.append("Normal text ")
.scale(0.5, { append("Text at half size " })
.backgroundColor(green, { append("Background green") })
Where green
is a resolved RGB color.
It is even possible to nest spans so you end up with an embedded DSL:
bold { underline { italic { append("Bold and underlined") } } }
You will need the following in your app module level build.gradle
for it to work:
repositories {
google()
}
dependencies {
implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:0.3'
}
Use HTML code in TextView using the Html
class:
Spanned styledText = Html.fromHtml("First Part Not Bold <b>BOLD</b> rest not bold");
textView.setText(styledText);
This code should set to bold everything that comes inside the html bold tag. And it also deletes the tag so only the content inside is displayed.
SpannableStringBuilder sb = new SpannableStringBuilder("this is <b>bold</b> and this is <b>bold too</b> and this is <b>bold too, again</b>.");
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<b>.*?</b>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
boolean stop = false;
while (!stop)
{
Matcher m = p.matcher(sb.toString());
if (m.find()) {
sb.setSpan(new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD), m.start(), m.end(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
sb.delete(m.end()-4, m.end());
sb.delete(m.start(), m.start() + 3);
}
else
stop = true;
}
This code can also be adapted for other html style tags, such as Superscript (sup tag), etc.
SpannableStringBuilder sb = new SpannableStringBuilder("text has <sup>superscript</sup> tag");
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<sup>.*?</sup>", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
boolean stop = false;
while (!stop)
{
Matcher m = p.matcher(sb.toString());
if (m.find()) {
sb.setSpan(new SuperscriptSpan(), m.start(), m.end(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
sb.delete(m.end()-6, m.end());
sb.delete(m.start(), m.start() + 5);
}
else
stop = true;
}
To set the color, just use the ForegroundColorSpan with setSpan.
sb.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.rgb(255, 0, 0)), m.start(), m.end(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
Hope it helps.
So I know this has been solved, and even as requested with SpannableStringBuilder but in the event you wanted to build a string more dynamically I figured I would put this up.
// Stuff needed
TextView DataTextView = (TextView)rootView.findViewById(R.id.DataView);
String Fields[] = {...database column names as strings... "x","y"};
String DataString = new String();
int start,stop; // Start and Stop of formatting
// Final Result
SpannableStringBuilder coloredString = new SpannableStringBuilder();
SpannableString temp; // Small segment of colored string
for (int i =0; i < Fields.length; i++)
{
if (database_result.containsKey(Fields[i])) // Be sure a field exists in the ContentValues
{
DataString = Fields[i]+": ";
start = DataString.length();
DataString = DataString+ +database_result.getAsInteger(Fields[i])+" ";
stop= DataString.length();
temp = new SpannableString(DataString);
temp.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.WHITE),start, stop, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
coloredString.append(temp);
}
}
DataTextView.setText(coloredString);
database_result is a ContentValues type that I constructed from the returned Cursor type of the SQL query. The only problem I had with this was at first it was only ColorSpaning the first segment. It seams that you need to declare a new ForegroundColorSpan every time you want to use one (or any other kind of span) in a loop.
We can also use SpannableStringBuilder with TextAppearanceSpan to accomplish that. Follow the below steps to implement like that.
- Create a style in
styles.xml
.
<style name="BoldStyle">
<!-- Can add other styling attributes -->
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
......
</style>
- Use the below code.
SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder("First Part Not Bold BOLD rest not bold"); builder.setSpan(new TextAppearanceSpan(this, R.style.BoldStyle), 20, 24, 0); ((TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv7)).setText(builder);
That's it. Hope it'll help someone.
Why would you use SpannableStringBuilder when you can use SpannableBuilder?? (https://gist.github.com/qtyq/90f9b4894069a8b3676c)
SpannableString ss = SpannableBuilder.init("First Part Not Bold BOLD rest not bold")
.makeBold("BOLD")
.create()
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10828182/spannablestringbuilder-to-create-string-with-multiple-fonts-text-sizes-etc-examp