How do I set the style of a textView programmatically?

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I'm creating a textView programmatically. Is there a way that i can set the style of this textView? Something similar to

style="@android:style/TextAppearance.DeviceDefault.Small"

which I would use if I had a layout.xml file.

you can not set the style of any view pragmatically. but you can set individual properties of the view — Kapil Vats, Feb 22 '13 at 08:53
Possible duplicate of [Android - set TextView TextStyle programmatically?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7919173/android-set-textview-textstyle-programmatically) — Massimiliano Kraus, Dec 02 '16 at 09:31

score 72 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 22 '13 at 08:55

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You can't programmatically set the style of a View, but you might be able to do something like textView.setTextAppearance(context, android.R.style.TextAppearance_Small);.

answered Feb 22 '13 at 08:55

Matthew

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Use `if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 23) { textView.setTextAppearance(context, android.R.style.TextAppearance_Small); } else { textView.setTextAppearance(android.R.style.TextAppearance_Small); }` – Nedko Feb 09 '16 at 15:38
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To simplify @Nedko's solution you can use: `TextViewCompat.setTextAppearance(tv, styleResource);` – ezefire Apr 06 '23 at 08:12

score 34 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 22 '13 at 08:53

It is not currently possible to set the style of a View programatically.

To get around this you can create a template layout xml file with the style assigned, for example in res/layout create tvtemplate.xml as with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="This is a template"
        style="@android:style/TextAppearance.DeviceDefault.Small" />

then inflate this to instantiate your new TextView:

TextView myText = (TextView)getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.tvtemplate, null);

I like this solution better than the accepted answer since it supports style as the OP requested (and I wanted). Besides, it always feels so....wrong.... to use an android.widget constructor. — James A Wilson, Aug 26 '15 at 12:45

score 16 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 03 '17 at 14:37

Actually, this is possible as of API level 21.

TextView has a 4 parameter constructor:

TextView (Context context, 
          AttributeSet attrs, 
          int defStyleAttr, 
          int defStyleRes)

The middle two parameters are not necessary in this case. The following code creates a TextView directly in an activity and only defines its style resource:

TextView myStyledTextView = new TextView(this, null, 0, R.style.my_style);

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered May 07 '18 at 16:52

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Compat version (because of deprecation in api 23):

TextViewCompat.setTextAppearance(textView, android.R.style.TextAppearance_DeviceDefault_Small);

answered May 07 '18 at 16:52

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Pragnani · Answer 5 · 2013-02-22T09:05:24.290

Try this

textview.setTextAppearance(context, R.style.yourstyle);

this may not work try Creating an xml with the textview like this

textviewstyle.xml

<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        style="@android:style/TextAppearance.DeviceDefault.Small" />

To get the desired style inflate the xml that contains textview

TextView myText = (TextView)getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.tvstyle, null);

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 07 '14 at 15:38

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For Views generated at run time ( in code ) you may pass style to constructor: View(Context, AttributeSet, int)

In other case you have to call varios methods to change apperance

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answered Feb 22 '13 at 08:55

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score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Dec 21 '20 at 10:57

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@Deprecated
public void setTextAppearance(Context context, @StyleRes int resId)

This method is deprecated as of Android SDK 23.

You can use safe version:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 23) {
    super.setTextAppearance(context, resId);
} else {
    super.setTextAppearance(resId);
}

edited Dec 21 '20 at 10:57

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answered Jan 17 '18 at 07:54

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 16 '21 at 15:31

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textView.setTextAppearance(context, android.R.style.TextAppearance_Small);

is deprecated in java so use it without context for kotlin

textView.setTextAppearance(android.R.style.TextAppearance_Small)

answered May 16 '21 at 15:31

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How do I set the style of a textView programmatically?

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