How to set multiple spans on a TextView's text on the same partial text?

Question

Suppose I have the next text :

Hello stackOverflow

And I wish to set the second word to be both RelativeSizeSpan (to set a relative font size) and TextAppearanceSpan (to set the color of the text) , how do I merge them both ?

All I know is that I can choose one of them , using the next code for example :

final SpannableString textToShow = new SpannableString("Hello stackOverflow"); textToShow.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(1.5f), textToShow.length() - "stackOverflow".length(),textToShow.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); textView.setText(textToShow); 

But I need to also set the color , or even add other features from other spanning classes ...

What can I do ?

Answer 1

Simply set additional spans. They are going to overlap/merge when neccessary. This code works for me:

final SpannableString text = new SpannableString("Hello stackOverflow"); text.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(1.5f), text.length() - "stackOverflow".length(), text.length(),             Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); text.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 3, text.length() - 3, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); tv.setText(text);