How to selected or highlight TextView programmatically in Android?

Question

Currently, I am create a small app for reading. There is a textview to display text. We can bookmark text and store in a listview. I want to click from listview and it highlight or select the bookmark index in the textview. I can get the bookmark_index. Is there method like textview.setSelect(Start,Length)? or Any library can do it? Thank

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Answer 1

Use Spannable

Spannable WordtoSpan = new SpannableString("partial colored text");        
WordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), startIndex, stopIndex, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
textView.setText(WordtoSpan);