How to get a red asterisk in a entry

Question

How do you get a red asterisk in a entry so that you can display it at the end of the text to indicate its a required field, like: Enter your name * (asterisk will be red).

Answer 1

Refer to this for examples on how to style portions of a textview. Here's how you could do it for a red asterisk.

EditText editTxt = new EditText(this);
editTxt.setText("Testing asterisk *");
Spannable str = editTxt.getTxt();
int loc = editTxt.getTxt().toString().indexOf("*");
str.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), loc, 1, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);