Is it possible to have multiple styles inside a TextView?

Question

Is it possible to set multiple styles for different pieces of text inside a TextView?

For instance, I am setting the text as follows:

tv.setText(line         


        

Answer 1

If you want to be able to add the styled text in xml you can create a custom view extending TextView and override setText():

public class HTMLStyledTextView extends TextView
{
    public HTMLStyledTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public HTMLStyledTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public HTMLStyledTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type)
    {
       super.setText(Html.fromHtml(text.toString()), type);
    }
}

Then, you can use it like this (replace PACKAGE_NAME with your package name):