Combining Spannable with String.format()

Question

Suppose you have the following string:

String s = \"The cold hand reaches for the %1$s %2$s Ellesse\'s\";
String old = \"old\"; 
String tan = \"tan\"; 
String fo         


        

Answer 1

Using Spannables like that is a headache -- this is probably the most straightforward way around:

String s = "The cold hand reaches for the %1$s %2$s Ellesse's";
String old = "old"; 
String tan = "tan"; 
String formatted = String.format(s,old,tan); //The cold hand reaches for the old tan Ellesse's

Spannable spannable = Html.fromHtml(formatted);

Problem: this does not put in a StrikethroughSpan. To make the StrikethroughSpan, we borrow a custom TagHandler from this question.

Spannable spannable = Html.fromHtml(text,null,new MyHtmlTagHandler());

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MyTagHandler:

public class MyHtmlTagHandler implements Html.TagHandler {
    public void handleTag(boolean opening, String tag, Editable output,
                          XMLReader xmlReader) {
        if (tag.equalsIgnoreCase("strike") || tag.equals("s")) {
            processStrike(opening, output);
        }
    }
    private void processStrike(boolean opening, Editable output) {
        int len = output.length();
        if (opening) {
            output.setSpan(new StrikethroughSpan(), len, len, Spannable.SPAN_MARK_MARK);
        } else {
            Object obj = getLast(output, StrikethroughSpan.class);
            int where = output.getSpanStart(obj);
            output.removeSpan(obj);
            if (where != len) {
                output.setSpan(new StrikethroughSpan(), where, len, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            }
        }
    }

    private Object getLast(Editable text, Class kind) {
        Object[] objs = text.getSpans(0, text.length(), kind);
        if (objs.length == 0) {
            return null;
        } else {
            for (int i = objs.length; i > 0; i--) {
                if (text.getSpanFlags(objs[i - 1]) == Spannable.SPAN_MARK_MARK) {
                    return objs[i - 1];
                }
            }
            return null;
        }
    }
}