how to have bold and normal text in same textview in android?

Question

I have searched internet and tried the following code but its not working

SpannableString ss1 = new SpannableString(\"Health: \");
           ss1.setSpan(new and         


        

Answer 1

In kotlin, you can do this. I used this to bold characters/word within a string. For example:

item = "Philippines"

query = "Phil"

result = Philippines

val spannable = SpannableString(item)
val indexStart = item.indexOf(query)
val indexEnd = indexStart + query.length
spannable.setSpan(StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), indexStart, indexEnd, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE)

and use it like this

textView.text = spannable