Rich text in a textview

Question

I need to create an "Info" for my program. I'd like to fill the info text with several colors, style, fonts, etc.

I found this link with a way how to achieve it.

Is there any other way (better or easier) to do this?

Answer 1

Upon reading your question title, I was prepared to give you a link to that exact article. I've found using spans and SpannableString to be quite powerful. The alternate would be to use HTML formatting for your text, which can be done with Html.fromHtml().

However, It's not exactly clear which HTML tags are supported, since the documentation simply reads:

This class processes HTML strings into displayable styled text. Not all HTML tags are supported.

So, for a good solution, I would definitely go with the SpannableString approach in the article. This method is very handy in practice since you can also make your own span classes that extend the existing ones (for example, if you want to have a section of text use a custom font that isn't built in).