How to color part of TextView in android? [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to change the color of certain words (Search results) in a TextView? I tried to use ANSI colors like this:

text.setText("\u001B31;1m" + "someText");

but it did not work. How do I achieve this?

Answer 1

this will help u

Spannable WordtoSpan = new SpannableString("I know just how to whisper");        
WordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 5, 13, 
Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
textview.setText(WordtoSpan);

Answer 2

You're looking for TextAppearanceSpan and 'SpannableString' To be more clear workflow is as follow

1. Create SpannableString from your source String
2. Create TextAppearanceSpan and set it via call to setSpan method on SpannableString
3. Call textView.setText method with SpannableString as argument

Answer 3

You can also use HTML like in the following example:

string = "<font color='#FFFFFF'>This is my text </font>" + "<font color='#000000'> Another text </font>";
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(string));

Without using additional variable (one-line solution):

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#FFFFFF'>This is my text </font>" + "<font color='#000000'> Another text </font>"));

It is quite easy and understandable solution :)