how to superscript in a title in androidplot?

Question

I'm trying to superscript a number in a title in androidplot, like so:

strings file:

<string name="plot_title_3m">stuff per m<sup>3</sup></string>

xml file:

androidPlot.title="@string/plot_title_3m"

but it doesn't superscript at all, the number is normal styling. I've also tried using

<string name="plot_title_3m">stuff per m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;</string>

but no dice, it actually shows the sup tags in the title

also tried this

<string name="plot_title_3m">stuff per m<small><sup>3</sup></small></string>

and actually found out that the 'small' tags don't work either...

Answer 1

You can use HTML tags to achieve this. To be more exact, you need to use Spans on your input text to achieve this look on TextView, but we have a friendly neighborhood helper class that converts some common HTML tags into spans.

E.g.:

((TextView)findViewById(R.id.text)).setText(Html.fromHtml("X<sup>2</sup>"));