Change word color in resource string

Question

Is there anyway to set the color of a string resource in android? I mean, I know I can use some html tags to change string style (or substrings) but have not found any to change color. I have seen other solutions here at stackoverflow like passing the string to Html.fromHtml(string) before setting the text but I want to do it in the string resource editor. Any possibility?

Answer 1

As far as I know it is not possible. I would use a SpannableString to change the color.

    int colorBlue = getResources().getColor(R.color.blue);
    String text = getString(R.string.text);
    SpannableString spannable = new SpannableString(text);
    // here we set the color
    spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(colorBlue), 0, text.length(), 0);

Spannable is really nice. You can set thinks like fontseize and stuff there and just attach it to a text view. The advantage is that you can have different colors in one view.

Edit: Ok, if you only want to set the Color the solution mentioned above me is the way to go.

Answer 2

It looks like this method is working:

    <string name="some_text">this is <font fgcolor="#ffff0000">red</font></string>