How to set color on string

Question

I want to set color just on "read more" string :

    holder.Title.setText(current.getTitle());
    holder.Description.setText(start+"...."+"read more");
    holder.Date.setText(current.getPubDate());

I have tried to use html.fromhtml but it is not working with me !!!

use `holder.Description.setTextColor()` to set the color of text. — Crammeur, Jul 26 '18 at 16:25
@crammeur the question asked to make red color only in a substring of holder.Description — Lino, Jul 26 '18 at 16:27
Possible duplicate of [Android: Coloring part of a string using TextView.setText()?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4897349/android-coloring-part-of-a-string-using-textview-settext) — Ramees Thattarath, Jul 26 '18 at 16:39
may be helps you https://github.com/milaptank/SpannableTextView — MilapTank, Jul 27 '18 at 04:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 26 '18 at 16:34

Try as follow

String textFirstPart = start + "....";
String textSecondPart = "read more";
String text = textFirstPart + textSecondPart;
Spannable spannable = new SpannableString(text);
spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), textFirstPart.length(),
                            (textFirstPart + textSecondPart).length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
holder.Description.setText(spannable, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

MRah · Answer 2 · 2018-07-26T16:41:57.170

Starting from Android N,

the method Html.fromHtml(htmlText) is deprecated and you have to use

Html.fromHtml(htmlText, MODE) instead, so use the following condition,

     if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
           holder.setText(Html.fromHtml(sourceString,Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY);
        } else {
           holder.setText(Html.fromHtml(sourceString);
        }

Reference: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Html#FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 26 '18 at 16:41

Here you go

 SpannableString styledString = new SpannableString("read more");
 // change text color
 styledString.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 0, 8, 0);
 // underline text
 styledString.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, 8, 0);

How to set color on string

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