Background around each letter in a word in TextView

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Is it possible to have a black background around each letter (not for the whole word) in a word in a TextView?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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The only way I can think of is by using html in your textView.

Put your text in HTML and then do something like this

TextView contactWeb1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.contactWeb1);
String desc = "<font color=\"red\"><a href='http://www.mysite.com/'>Visit my site</a></font>";
contactWeb1.setText(Html.fromHtml(desc));

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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answered Aug 22 '12 at 11:58

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I can't use "style" inside that html ? I have tried to "tvText.setText(android.text.Html.fromHtml("bla"));" in order to put black border around each letter but it didn't work. – ohadinho Aug 22 '12 at 12:30
I doubt android has a css parser, so try to use only the ancient `` tag – Gautam Aug 22 '12 at 15:42

Background around each letter in a word in TextView

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