How to convert part of a string to italics?

Question

I want to make animal.getScientificName as Italics(code below). I\'m using a List View and setting the text in the listview. I wan\'t only part of the Text view to

Answer 1

You can accomplish this using spans on your text (to expand here on the correct answer in comment by Georgian Benatos).

Here is a related question, and the answers show you exactly how to do this:

• Custom sized italic Font using Spannable

Specifically some sample code in the answer provided by Raghunandan

String title="My Custom Text!";  
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.some_id);
SpannableString ss1=  new SpannableString(title);
ss1.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.ITALIC), 0, ss1.length(), 0);
ss1.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(2f), 0, ss1.length, 0); 
tv.setText(ss1);

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Spans are a very useful feature - they can be used for various common text styles:

• italics
• bold
• underline
• bullets

To have a look at the wide range of spans available, take a look at the Android developers page for the android.text.style package:

• android.text.style | Android Developers