How to highlight the filtered text while using SearchView widget in android

Question

I have implemented SearchView Widget in my app. Its working fine. Now i need to do is, whenever i type a word in my SearchView Bar

Answer 1

you can use Spannable TextView for this. hope so this Method will help you

Method:

public static CharSequence highlightText(String search, String originalText) {
    if (search != null && !search.equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
        String normalizedText = Normalizer.normalize(originalText, Normalizer.Form.NFD).replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "").toLowerCase();
        int start = normalizedText.indexOf(search);
        if (start < 0) {
            return originalText;
        } else {
            Spannable highlighted = new SpannableString(originalText);
            while (start >= 0) {
                int spanStart = Math.min(start, originalText.length());
                int spanEnd = Math.min(start + search.length(), originalText.length());
                highlighted.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), spanStart, spanEnd, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                start = normalizedText.indexOf(search, spanEnd);
            }
            return highlighted;
        }
    }
    return originalText;
}

and return originalText will highlight text.