How to set TextView textStyle such as bold, italic

Question

How to set TextView style (bold or italic) within Java and without using the XML layout?

In other words, I need to write android:textStyle with Java.

score 2089 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 08 '17 at 03:03

2089

textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);

To keep the previous typeface

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC)

edited Sep 08 '17 at 03:03

thanhbinh84

17,876
6
62
69

answered Jun 01 '11 at 12:04

Tanmay Mandal

39,873
12
51
48

7

To remove the style can be used Typeface.NORMAL – Brais Gabin Apr 10 '13 at 08:19
371

If you do that, you'll lose any previous typeface. To keep the previous one, do something like textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC); – leocadiotine May 21 '13 at 22:37
42

`textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL);` will not remove bold or italic styling from a `TextView`. You will need to use `textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);` for that. – Jarett Millard Dec 03 '14 at 18:47
78

To keep any previous typeface but to get rid of bold or italic style, use following code : `textView.setTypeface(Typeface.create(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL), Typeface.NORMAL);` – Shnkc Mar 14 '15 at 14:04
9

Thanks @Shnkc, You pointed me to the right direction. Actually you just need: textView.setTypeface(Typeface.create(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL)); – Pedro Hidalgo Feb 09 '17 at 23:58
You mean, you can't just do a bitwise OR when you want _both_ bold and italic? – aroth Mar 17 '17 at 02:15
@leocadiotine What do you mean by losing the typeface? If I set a custom font, will it go back to the default ones of the OS ? – android developer Dec 14 '17 at 08:03
Is there a "semi bold"? Font weight of 500? – Noitidart May 11 '18 at 09:41
for kotlin: textView.typeface = Typeface.create(textView.typeface, if (isSelected) Typeface.BOLD else Typeface.NORMAL) – Pai-Hsiang Huang Feb 04 '21 at 01:54

Niranj Patel · Answer 2 · 2016-12-31T04:44:11.407

289

Try this to set on TextView for bold or italic

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

edited Dec 31 '16 at 04:44

answered Jun 01 '11 at 11:48

Niranj Patel

32,980
10
97
133

18

Incidentally, if you want to clear an existing typeface style, you'll need to do something different, e.g.: `tv.setTypeface(Typeface.create(tv.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL));` – greg7gkb Sep 10 '14 at 17:30
@greg7gkb `tv.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);` won't this do the same(clear an existing typeface style)? – Prabs Apr 27 '17 at 12:32
Passing null into setTypeface() means that the TextView uses a hard-coded default that may be different from the Typeface previously set. – greg7gkb May 31 '18 at 00:37

Pratik Butani · Answer 3 · 2015-10-15T13:39:20.033

166

Programmatically:

You can do programmatically using setTypeface():

textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);      // for Normal Text
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);        // for Bold only
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);      // for Italic
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC); // for Bold and Italic

XML:

You can set Directly in XML file in <TextView /> like:

android:textStyle="normal"
android:textStyle="normal|bold"
android:textStyle="normal|italic"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textStyle="bold|italic"

edited Oct 15 '15 at 13:39

answered Mar 28 '13 at 07:34

Pratik Butani

60,504
58
273
437

11

Questioner asked how to do it without using XML layout. – JulianSymes Dec 02 '13 at 11:26
8

Check Question `with in Java and without using XML` By the way It will help to others also. – Pratik Butani Oct 15 '15 at 13:37
10

Yes. I came here via Google and it just helped me. Thanks :) – Atul May 16 '16 at 10:20

score 103 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:48

103

You have two options:

Option 1 (only works for bold, italic and underline):

String s = "<b>Bolded text</b>, <i>italic text</i>, even <u>underlined</u>!"
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.THE_TEXTVIEW_ID);
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(s));

Option 2:

Use a Spannable; it is more complicated, but you can dynamically modify the text attributes (not only bold/italic, also colors).

edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:48

Charuක

12,953
5
50
88

answered Jun 01 '11 at 11:47

Gabriel Negut

13,860
4
38
45

Why not use the typeFace attribute? – shecodesthings Aug 07 '13 at 19:54
6

With `typeFace` you can set a single style for the whole text. – Gabriel Negut Aug 08 '13 at 05:34
2

when I am trying in my custom row its not getting why? String s1 = "You are at:"; holder.address = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.address_text_view); holder.address.setText(Html.fromHtml(s1)+ track.getAddress()); – Shailendra Madda Nov 25 '13 at 14:45
2

This method is great partial text styling. Like a quote inside a large textview. – Salih Erikci Apr 09 '14 at 18:24
1

The first method doesn't work in my case private void createTextView(String title, String text) { textView = new TextView(this); textView.setTextSize(17); textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("" + title + "") + " : " + text); } – garenyondem Jan 23 '15 at 13:28
Option 1 is not works when we append some other text with this bolded text so in that case refer Option 2 – AMI CHARADAVA Oct 01 '18 at 07:15
1

The spannable and fromHTML options may slow down typing / setText if the text is big due to layout recalculations. Avoid it if you have other methods available. – Eugene Kartoyev Oct 29 '18 at 06:21
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("Test 1 2 3")); This code can also be used easily. – Bay Nov 04 '19 at 12:10
also works if you're looking for quick new lines between headings – shecodesthings Aug 24 '20 at 14:19

score 54 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 06 '18 at 12:41

Programmatically:

You can do programmatically using setTypeface() method:

Below is the code for default Typeface

textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);      // for Normal Text
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);        // for Bold only
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);      // for Italic
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC); // for Bold and Italic

and if you want to set custom Typeface:

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL);      // for Normal Text
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);        // for Bold only
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);      // for Italic
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC); // for Bold and Italic

XML:

You can set directly in XML file in <TextView /> like this:

android:textStyle="normal"
android:textStyle="normal|bold"
android:textStyle="normal|italic"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textStyle="bold|italic"

Or you can set your fav font (from assets). for more info see link

I've been trying to use this way but when font is set to Typeface.BOLD, everything starts to act weird. Text gets collapsed (aligned vertically instead of horizontal, totally unreadable) and buttons stop responding, messes with listeners.. it goes to normal when i let the custom font Typeface.NORMAL. — Ezequiel Adrian, Feb 09 '22 at 01:10

score 15 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 10:54

You can set the different typeface using the example given below -

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

Or if you want to set a different font and its typeface . Add it to asset or raw folder and then use it like

  Typeface face= Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font/font.ttf");
  tv1.setTypeface(face);

  Typeface face1= Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font/font1.ttf");
  tv2.setTypeface(face1);

score 15 · Answer 7 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:48

15

TextView text = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.THE_TEXTVIEW_ID);

now set the textview properties..

text.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);  //-- for only bold the text
text.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);  //-- for  bold & italic the text
text.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);  // -- for  italic the text

edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:48

Charuක

12,953
5
50
88

answered Jun 01 '11 at 13:00

Akash Thakkar

998
1
10
11

score 13 · Answer 8 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:50

13

Simply if you want to make text bold. write this line in your layout in text view property

android:textStyle="bold"

edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:50

Charuක

12,953
5
50
88

answered Jun 07 '16 at 09:05

score 11 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 16 '19 at 05:14

11

Try this:

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

answered Feb 16 '19 at 05:14

mohamad sheikhi

394
5
16

score 11 · Answer 10 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:48

11

It would be

yourTextView.setTypeface(null,Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);

and italic should be able to be with replacing Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD with Typeface.DEFAULT_ITALC.

Let me know how it works.

edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:48

Charuක

12,953
5
50
88

answered Jun 01 '11 at 11:47

DustinRiley

555
6
15

score 10 · Answer 11 · edited Jul 21 '12 at 04:47

10

TextView text = (TextView)findViewById(R.layout.textName);
text.setTypeface(null,Typeface.BOLD);

edited Jul 21 '12 at 04:47

Janak Nirmal

22,706
18
63
99

answered Jul 13 '12 at 06:07

Khushi

147
1
8

score 10 · Answer 12 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:48

10

try this to set your TextView style by java code

txt1.setTypeface(null,Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:48

Charuක

12,953
5
50
88

answered Jun 01 '11 at 11:49

Nikhil

16,194
20
64
81

score 8 · Answer 13 · answered Feb 09 '19 at 14:23

textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);

To keep the previous typeface

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC)

score 7 · Answer 14 · edited Jul 05 '12 at 09:55

7

Use textView.setTypeface(Typeface tf, int style); to set style property of the TextView. See the developer documentation for more info.

edited Jul 05 '12 at 09:55

Matt

74,352
26
153
180

answered Jun 01 '11 at 11:48

Dinesh Sharma

11,533
7
42
60

score 6 · Answer 15 · edited Nov 17 '14 at 10:21

6

Try this:

TextView textview = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview_idname);
textview.setTypeface(null,Typeface.BOLD);

edited Nov 17 '14 at 10:21

Padma Kumar

19,893
17
73
130

answered Oct 14 '14 at 20:59

Black_shadow

77
1
4

score 4 · Answer 16 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:49

Standard way to do this is to use the custom styles. Ex-

In styles.xml add the following.

<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name="MyApp.TextAppearance.LoginText">
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold|italic</item>
</style>

Apply this style to your TextView as follows.

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    style="@style/MyApp.TextAppearance.LoginText" />

score 4 · Answer 17 · answered Jul 14 '15 at 15:50

And as explained here Android Developers String Resources if you need to use parameters in your styled text resource, you have to escape the opening brackets

<resources>
<string name="welcome_messages">Hello, %1$s! You have &lt;b>%2$d new messages&lt;/b>.</string>
</resources>

and call formatHtml(string)

Resources res = getResources();
String text = String.format(res.getString(R.string.welcome_messages), username, mailCount);
CharSequence styledText = Html.fromHtml(text);

score 4 · Answer 18 · edited May 27 '17 at 00:48

One way you can do is :

myTextView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);
myTextView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
myTextView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
myTextView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);

Another option if you want to keep the previous typeface and don't want to lose previously applied then:

myTextView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL);      
myTextView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);        
myTextView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);      
myTextView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

score 4 · Answer 19 · answered Jul 31 '17 at 07:42

4

You can try like this:

<string name="title"><u><b><i>Your Text</i></b></u></string>

answered Jul 31 '17 at 07:42

Vishal Vaishnav

3,346
3
26
57

score 4 · Answer 20 · answered Mar 15 '19 at 02:53

The easiest way you can do based on the style selection criteria is:

String pre = "", post = "";

if(isBold){
    pre += "<b>"; post += "</b>";
}
if(isItalic){
    pre += "<i>"; post += "</i>";
}
if(isUnderline){
    pre += "<u>"; post += "</u>";
}

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(pre + editText.getText().toString()+ post));
// you can also use it with EidtText
editText.setText(Html.fromHtml(pre + editText.getText().toString()+ post));

score 3 · Answer 21 · answered Mar 12 '20 at 10:28

While using simplified tags with AndroidX consider using HtmlCompat.fromHtml()

String s = "<b>Bolded text</b>, <i>italic text</i>, even <u>underlined</u>!"    
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.THE_TEXTVIEW_ID);
tv.setText(HtmlCompat.fromHtml(s, FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));

Stan · Answer 22 · 2014-08-25T09:57:36.210

Since I want to use a custom font only conjunction of several answers works for me. Obviously settings in my layout.xml like android:textStlyle="italic" was ignored by AOS. So finally I had to do as follows: in strings.xml the target string was declared as:

<string name="txt_sign"><i>The information blah blah ...</i></string>

then additionally in code:

TextView textSign = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txt_sign);
FontHelper.setSomeCustomFont(textSign);
textSign.setTypeface(textSign.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);

I didn't try the Spannable option (which I assume MUST work) but

textSign.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.txt_sign)))

had no effect. Also if I remove the italic tag from strings.xml leaving the setTypeface() all alone it has no effect either. Tricky Android...

score 2 · Answer 23 · answered Sep 28 '17 at 17:15

2

In my case:

1 - set text

2 - set typeface

holder.title.setText(item.nome);
holder.title.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);

answered Sep 28 '17 at 17:15

FlipNovid

1,191
3
12
20

score 1 · Answer 24 · answered Dec 29 '17 at 20:57

This is the only thing that worked for me on a OnePlus 5T configured with the OnePlus Slate™ font:

textView.setTypeface(Typeface.create(textView.getTypeface(), useBold ? Typeface.BOLD : Typeface.NORMAL));

Other methods would make it fall back to Roboto when either BOLD or NORMAL.

score 1 · Answer 25 · answered Nov 14 '22 at 10:20

1

//leveraging the extension functions
fun TextView.makeBold(){
    this.setTypeface(this.typeface,Typeface.BOLD)
}


yourTextView.makeBold()

answered Nov 14 '22 at 10:20

Faisal Naseer

4,110
1
37
55

score 0 · Answer 26 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 13:49

Best way is to define it in styles.xml

<style name="common_txt_style_heading" parent="android:style/Widget.TextView">
        <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/common_txtsize_heading</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/color_black</item>
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold|italic</item>
</style>

And update it in TextView

  <TextView
     android:id="@+id/txt_userprofile"
     style="@style/common_txt_style_heading"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
     android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_small"
     android:text="@string/some_heading" />

score 0 · Answer 27 · answered Jan 02 '17 at 08:48

0

AppCompatTextView text =(AppCompatTextView)findViewById(R.layout.appCompatTextView1);
text.setTypeface(null,Typeface.BOLD);

Use above method to set the typeface programmatically.

answered Jan 02 '17 at 08:48

Tulsi

719
7
15

score 0 · Answer 28 · answered Dec 13 '19 at 06:23

0

1) You can set it with TypeFace. 2) You can directly use in strings.xml(in your values folder) 3) You can String myNewString = " This is my bold text This is my italics string This is my underlined string

answered Dec 13 '19 at 06:23

Ujjwal Bassi

51
1
13

How to set TextView textStyle such as bold, italic

28 Answers28

Programmatically:

XML:

Programmatically:

XML:

Linked

Related