Formatting a Substring in TextView

Question

I have a TextView for which I want a single character to be a different color. The entire string is static, it will not change. I have found several things about different types of spans and using html, but I want to (if possible) keep everything in the layout file (or strings.xml). Is there any way to change the color of only a substring of my TextView using only xml? Thanks.

Answer 1

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You could add the text content to strings.xml and set the textColor for the different text separately.

Here is the sample code, you could refer to it.

   <TextView  
       android:id="@+id/textView1"  
       android:text="@string/test_content"  
       android:layout_width="match_parent"  
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>  

Resource\values\strings.xml

   <resources>  
     <string name="test_content">  
       normal text content  
       <font fgcolor="#ffff0000">Hello world!</font>  
     </string>  
   </resources>  

Best Regards,

Jarvan Zhang

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