If you want to set stateful color from code, you need to pass in ColorStateList as an argument to setTextColor passing an int to the method results in setting the color to all the states. It also looks like your xml is not totally correct. Example from ColorStateList docs looks like(should be located like this: … Read more
If anyone’s having difficulty with Roosevelt’s code sample (I sure was, maybe because it’s Xamarin.Android?), here’s a translation into a more basic Android java version: public class RoundedBackgroundSpan extends ReplacementSpan { private static int CORNER_RADIUS = 8; private int backgroundColor = 0; private int textColor = 0; public RoundedBackgroundSpan(Context context) { super(); backgroundColor = context.getResources().getColor(R.color.gray); … Read more
Solution1:: Just call these method by passing parent view as argument. private void overrideFonts(final Context context, final View v) { try { if (v instanceof ViewGroup) { ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) v; for (int i = 0; i < vg.getChildCount(); i++) { View child = vg.getChildAt(i); overrideFonts(context, child); } } else if (v instanceof TextView … Read more
Thank you for your help all. I have managed to make this work, after I have found some examples in the android samples. here is the code: textView.setText(Html.fromHtml( “<b>text3:</b> Text with a ” + “<a href=\”http://www.google.com\”>link</a> ” + “created in the Java source code using HTML.”)); textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); Hope this help others…
Another clever way which can be used in older versions of android and can be used anywhere in string so it’s handier even in latest version of android, is to include the right-to-left mark or even left-to-right mark in the string when it’s needed: left-to-right mark: ‎ or ‎ (U+200E) right-to-left mark: ‏ or ‏ … Read more
Or far simpler than dealing with Spannables manually, since you didn’t say that you want the background highlighted, just the text: String styledText = “This is <font color=”red”>simple</font>.”; textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(styledText), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
android:ems or setEms(n) sets the width of a TextView to fit a text of n ‘M’ letters regardless of the actual text extension and text size. See wikipedia Em unit but only when the layout_width is set to “wrap_content”. Other layout_width values override the ems width setting. Adding an android:textSize attribute determines the physical width … Read more
you can try this tested and full working code : public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(new GraphicsView(this)); } static public class GraphicsView extends View { private static final String QUOTE = “This is a curved text”; private Path circle; private Paint cPaint; private Paint tPaint; public GraphicsView(Context … Read more
You can find the instance of Fragment by using, For support library, YourFragment fragment_obj = (YourFragment)getSupportFragmentManager(). findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_id); else YourFragment fragment_obj = (YourFragment)getFragmentManager(). findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_id); Then create a method in the Fragment that updates your TextView and call that method using fragment_obj like, fragment_obj.updateTextView();
Took some digging through the TextView source but here’s what I came up with. It doesn’t require you to wrap the TextView in a ScrollView and, as far as I can tell, works perfectly. // function to append a string to a TextView as a new line // and scroll to the bottom if needed … Read more