Highlight All Words that is searched via EditText

Question

Hello I want to know how to highlight all Words that is inputted in the EditText and will appear in the TextView this post is related to this one Highlight Textview Using EditText

Answer 1

Say et is your EditText and tv is TextView object. Use the following code:

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public class MotivationalQuotesActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

Button next;
EditText et; 
TextView tv;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
   et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.et);
   tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv);
   tv.setText("The name of our country is Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a land of rivers.");

   next = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    next.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                tv.setText("The name of our country is Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a land of rivers.");
                String ett =et.getText().toString();
                String tvt =tv.getText().toString();

                int ofe = tvt.indexOf(ett,0);   
                Spannable WordtoSpan = new SpannableString( tv.getText() );

        for(int ofs=0;ofs<tvt.length() && ofe!=-1;ofs=ofe+1)
        {       


              ofe = tvt.indexOf(ett,ofs);   
                  if(ofe == -1)
                      break;
                  else
                      {                       

                      WordtoSpan.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(0xFFFFFF00), ofe, ofe+ett.length(),Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                      tv.setText(WordtoSpan, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
                      }


        }  


            }
        });

    }

}

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The result is:

Answer 2

One easy and quick way of highlighting a text, is to use string replace method. Replace the desire string with font tag

Spanned strHTML= Html.fromHtml("<center>"+full_string.replaceAll(strSrch,"<font color='yellow'>"+strSrch+"</font>")+"</center><br/>");
TextView tv=(TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.txtPager);
tv.setText(strHTML,TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);