How to set two different colors for text in TextView in XML?

Question

I have two words inside TextView :

Hello world.

Now I want to colorize world to red color. How I can do that ONLY in XML itself without using java code (without using Html.fromHtml() as well)

*I'm a little bit confuse for downvoting...Why?* *A good question...should not be downvoted.* ... yes, it should, because it is duplicate — Selvin, Sep 29 '16 at 11:10
@Selvin but he doesn't want to go the html tags way. The duplicate you mentioned has to use **(Html.fromHtml())** to work. — Nishant Dubey, Sep 29 '16 at 11:12
You would have to subclass `TextView` to do this, so technically you can't do it "ONLY in XML". It would be a pretty simple subclass, though. — Mike M., Sep 29 '16 at 12:34

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 29 '16 at 10:59

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You can use font tag in string.xml as

<string name="hello">Hello <font fgcolor="red">World</font></string>

answered Sep 29 '16 at 10:59

aastha gupta

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Won't that make him use **(Html.fromHtml())** in java to actually retrieve this string ? – Nishant Dubey Sep 29 '16 at 11:03
@NishantDubey yeap. – Sergey Shustikov Sep 29 '16 at 11:03
No it wouldn't if he is setting the value using `setText(R.string.hello);` or in Layout xml – aastha gupta Sep 29 '16 at 11:04
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Checked just now. Not worked. – Sergey Shustikov Sep 29 '16 at 11:08
Because afterall those are *HTML TAGS* will work with (Html.fromHtml()) which he doesn't want – Nishant Dubey Sep 29 '16 at 11:10
I just created an example and its working. Don't know what you are doing wrong. Its the code. `` – aastha gupta Sep 29 '16 at 11:25

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