How to wrap each line of TextView with background?

Question

I have TextView which contains text. It has background:

    <TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Hello World!\nEach line should be wrapped by background not whole text"
    android:textColor="#000000"
    android:textSize="24sp"
    android:background="#FFFF00"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    android:padding="8dp"/>

Now, a background is wrapping whole text. I want it to wrap each line individually. Now I am getting the result which is shown on the left of the image. I want to achieve the result which is on the right.

I would create several TextViews with separate backgrounds but TextView shows dynamic text which makes this solution not so good.

My question: how to wrap TextView's each line with background?

Also check https://stackoverflow.com/a/38080463/3395198 – IntelliJ Amiya Sep 19 '17 at 09:24 — IntelliJ Amiya, Sep 19 '17 at 09:24

Amrutha Saj · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-19T09:06:45.083

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You can use SpannableString

 SpannableString str = new SpannableString("Highlighted. Not highlighted.");
 str.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(Color.YELLOW), 0, 11, 0);
 textView.setText(str);

if you want the entire string to highlight

 str.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(Color.YELLOW), 0, str.length(), 0);

edited Sep 19 '17 at 09:06

answered Sep 19 '17 at 09:03

Amrutha Saj

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thank you for your answer. Now I will try this solution) – Joe Rakhimov Sep 19 '17 at 09:04
sure it will help you.) – Amrutha Saj Sep 19 '17 at 09:10

How to wrap each line of TextView with background?

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