How to search for a word in a string and highlight word in a text view in android?

Question

in my android application i have a string that contains a specific word so i want to display whole string in text view and the specific word should be highlighted.Hope follo

Answer 1

If I can understand you have the list of words and you want to find this words in text and highlight them so in this answer you have three input parameter:

1. full text.
2. yourList

3. yourTextview to show the result text

   String text = "full of your text";
   Spannable textSpannable = new SpannableString(text);
   
   for (int j =0 ; j