Can textview have letters in different colors?

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I want to display '123' but 1 in red color 2 in green and 3 in black ... Is that possible, or is there any other recommended way of displaying different text color in the same textview...

why that ?? you make a linearlayout and inflate texteview insade has many as you want :D — PedroAGSantos, Jun 08 '11 at 13:29

score 60 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:32

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Yes, you can have different colors in different places of the text if you are using SpannableString. Example:

SpannableString text = new SpannableString("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet");  
// make "Lorem" (characters 0 to 5) red  
text.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 0, 5, 0);  
textView.setText(text, BufferType.SPANNABLE);

There's a more complete example here.

Javadoc for SpannableString

answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:32

Kaj

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Your answer should be marked as the correct one (not that the one marked correct is not, but I find this one the right approach). – Leeeeeeelo Jan 18 '13 at 08:46
I couldn't get this to work. The text comes out all black, even though one of the letters should be colored. What does the flag 0 even mean? It's not defined in the Spanned class. – FractalBob Mar 05 '22 at 21:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:32

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Ah I found it use below code

myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(html text having 1 in red 2 in green and so on));

I dont know web so you better consult someone who can write html for you :P

answered Jun 08 '11 at 13:32

ingsaurabh

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tnx , here is something more coplete String styledText ="asd"; cache.timeView.setText(Html.fromHtml(styledText) ); – Lukap Jun 08 '11 at 13:46
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I don't think that using html is the right way to go. – Kaj Jun 08 '11 at 13:55
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Why does the html is not the right way @Kaj? – Alesqui Sep 06 '13 at 16:32

Swapnil Kotwal · Answer 3 · 2013-09-13T09:04:39.063

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You can prints lines with multiple colors without html like this:)

TextView TV = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.mytextview01);

  Spannable WordtoSpan = new SpannableString("Your message");        

WordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 0, WordtoSpan .length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

TV.setText(WordtoSpan);

edited Sep 13 '13 at 09:04

answered Feb 18 '13 at 12:59

Swapnil Kotwal

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Can textview have letters in different colors?

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