How can I select a word specified in textView

Question

I have some text in a textView and I want all phrases that are as the Note in my text select them and change the their color to the red color. How can I do this? Is there a method for this?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32778859/find-next-or-previous-word-on-textview/32780509#32780509 — penta, Sep 25 '15 at 20:25
You can check answers in this [question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8612652/select-a-word-on-a-tap-in-textview-edittext). — abozaid, Sep 25 '15 at 21:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '15 at 20:44

try this

String text = "Some text in the text view.";
String searchText = "the";
int startPos = -1, endPos = -1;

if(text.toLowerCase().contains(searchText.toLowerCase())){
   startPos = text.toLowerCase().indexOf(searchText.toLowerCase());
   endPos = startPos + searchText.length();
   Spannable spanText = Spannable.Factory.getInstance().newSpannable(text);
   if (startPos != -1){
      spanText.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), startPos, endPos, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
      yourTextView.setText(spanText);
   }
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '15 at 20:50

You can do the following to highlight all the "Note" words in your textview.. first set the word to change color:

String stringtoChange = "Note";

then change the color using the replaceAll method of the String class:

textToHighlight = textToHighlight.replaceAll(stringtoChange, "<font color='red'>" + stringtoChange + "</font>");

where textToHighlight is your textView text and finally set the edited text to the textView:

your textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(textToHighlight));

How can I select a word specified in textView

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