How to use String.format to create a formatted title

Question

I found this question, and that works fine. But I have a resource string which is a format string that goes into String.format.

Consider R.string.test to be This is a test: <b>%1$s</b>.

Then this code:

getActionBar().setTitle(String.format(getString(R.string.test), "TEST"));

does not show bold, but this does (but it doesn't show the replaced string obviously):

getActionBar().setTitle(getResources().getText(R.string.test));

How can I use String.format to create a formatted title?

Use a Spannable to set the text font, the current way you have it, Android will just ignore it. See [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3282940/set-color-of-textview-span-in-android) on how to achieve it. — t0mm13b, May 23 '16 at 13:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '16 at 13:56

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String.format has this syntax, for example : String.format("%s %d %f", "string1, myInt, myDouble); Your variable types and formatting go in the quotes, prefaced by %, then after the quotes and the comma, you add your variables - the must be of the type specified in the quotes, or it will probably crash.

answered May 23 '16 at 13:56

Richard Goodman

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Thanks, but that is not the issue. – Bart Friederichs May 23 '16 at 13:59

Yasin Kaçmaz · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-23T14:12:34.363

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Did you tried Html.fromHtml:

getActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color=#343434>" + "Your Text" + "</font>"));

I have another too , this is a Html string with multiple space :

getActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color=#FFFFFF>" + "&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp" +"Your Text" + "</font>"));

Also you can directly go for :

setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color=#343434>" + "Your Text" + "</font>"));

edited May 23 '16 at 14:12

answered May 23 '16 at 13:58

Yasin Kaçmaz

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i've edited my answer maybe will work for you. Accidently i wrote color like that : ##343434 – Yasin Kaçmaz May 23 '16 at 14:10
Got it. I had to escape the HTML tags in my resources file: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html – Bart Friederichs May 23 '16 at 14:10
glad to help your problem, you can create a string in resorces or in hardcoded way. Of course i will suggest resources string. – Yasin Kaçmaz May 23 '16 at 14:14

How to use String.format to create a formatted title

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