how do I highlight the searched text in my search filter?

Question

I am trying to do a search such that all the \"visible\" search letters should be highlighted. I tried using spannable but that didn\'t do the trick, maybe I wasnt doing it

Answer 1

Put this code before setting text in getview

Spannable wordtoSpan = new SpannableString("Your_text_in_getviews");

        wordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 0, edtFilter
                .getText().toString().length(),
                Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
txt_contact.setText(wordtoSpan);

Answer 2

Let's assume you have create a custom adapter, then you can refer to the following code:

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View view;
        TextView text;

        if (convertView == null) {
            view = mInflater.inflate(mResource, parent, false);
        } else {
            view = convertView;
        }

        try {
            if (mFieldId == 0) {
                //  If no custom field is assigned, assume the whole resource is a TextView
                text = (TextView) view;
            } else {
                //  Otherwise, find the TextView field within the layout
                text = (TextView) view.findViewById(mFieldId);
            }
        } catch (ClassCastException e) {
            Log.e("ArrayAdapter", "You must supply a resource ID for a TextView");
            throw new IllegalStateException(
                    "ArrayAdapter requires the resource ID to be a TextView", e);
        }
        String item = getItem(position);
        text.setText(item);

        String fullText = getItem(position);
        // highlight search text
        if (mSearchText != null && !mSearchText.isEmpty()) {
            int startPos = fullText.toLowerCase(Locale.US).indexOf(mSearchText.toLowerCase(Locale.US));
            int endPos = startPos + mSearchText.length();

            if (startPos != -1) {
                Spannable spannable = new SpannableString(fullText);
                ColorStateList blueColor = new ColorStateList(new int[][]{new int[]{}}, new int[]{Color.BLUE});
                TextAppearanceSpan highlightSpan = new TextAppearanceSpan(null, Typeface.BOLD, -1, blueColor, null);
                spannable.setSpan(highlightSpan, startPos, endPos, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                text.setText(spannable);
            } else {
                text.setText(fullText);
            }
        } else {
            text.setText(fullText);
        }

        return view;
    }

The mSearchText will be updated at the following inside performFiltering of ArrayFilter class.

String prefixString = prefix.toString().toLowerCase();
mSearchText = prefixString;

You can find more details in my sample code here or my GitHub (with lastest update).

Here is the screenshot

Answer 3

In your filter method, store the string used to perform the filter:

// Filter Class
public void filter(String searchString) {
    this.searchString = searchString;
    ...
    // Filtering stuff as normal.
}

You must declare a member string to store it:

public class ListViewAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
    ...    
    String searchString = "";
    ...

And, in getView you highlight the search term:

public View getView(final int position, View view, ViewGroup parent) {
    ...
    // Set the results into TextViews
    WorldPopulation item = worldpopulationlist.get(position);
    holder.rank.setText(item.getRank());
    holder.country.setText(item.getCountry());
    holder.population.setText(item.getPopulation());

    // Find charText in wp
    String country = item.getCountry().toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault());
    if (country.contains(searchString)) {
        Log.e("test", country + " contains: " + searchString);
        int startPos = country.indexOf(searchString);
        int endPos = startPos + searchString.length();

        Spannable spanText = Spannable.Factory.getInstance().newSpannable(holder.country.getText()); // <- EDITED: Use the original string, as `country` has been converted to lowercase.
        spanText.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), startPos, endPos, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

        holder.country.setText(spanText, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
    }
    ...
}

Hope it helps.

Answer 4

Hi on your adapter class ,make a spanneble text and set it to your textview, the below code you can use for reference.

 if ("text contains filter value".toLowerCase().contains("filter".toLowerCase())) {
        Spannable spanText = Spannable.Factory.getInstance().newSpannable("text contains filter value".toLowerCase());

        Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("filter".toLowerCase())
                .matcher("text contains filter value".toLowerCase());
        while (matcher.find()) {
            spanText.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), matcher.start(),
                    matcher.start() + "filter".length(),
                    Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
        }
       yourTextView.setText(spanText);
    }

Answer 5

This is only demo for highlight text, you can implement your self by calling highlight(searchText, originalText) in filter,

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
EditText editText;
TextView text;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
    text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);

    editText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                text.setText(highlight(editText.getText().toString(), text.getText().toString()));
        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

        }
    });

}

public static CharSequence highlight(String search, String originalText) {
    String normalizedText = Normalizer.normalize(originalText, Normalizer.Form.NFD).replaceAll("\\p{InCombiningDiacriticalMarks}+", "").toLowerCase();
    int start = normalizedText.indexOf(search);
    if (start <= 0) {
        return originalText;
    } else {
        Spannable highlighted = new SpannableString(originalText);
        while (start > 0) {
            int spanStart = Math.min(start, originalText.length());
            int spanEnd = Math.min(start + search.length(), originalText.length());
            highlighted.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(Color.YELLOW), spanStart, spanEnd, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            start = normalizedText.indexOf(search, spanEnd);
        }
        return highlighted;
    }
 }
}