how to highlight text in android studio
textView.setText("Hello, I am Awesome, Most Awesome"); // set text first
setHighLightedText(textView, "a"); // highlight all `a` in TextViewhow to highlight text in android studio
textView.setText("Hello, I am Awesome, Most Awesome"); // set text first
setHighLightedText(textView, "a"); // highlight all `a` in TextViewhow to highlight text in android studio
/**
* use this method to highlight a text in TextView
*
* @param tv TextView or Edittext or Button (or derived from TextView)
* @param textToHighlight Text to highlight
*/
public void setHighLightedText(TextView tv, String textToHighlight) {
String tvt = tv.getText().toString();
int ofe = tvt.indexOf(textToHighlight, 0);
Spannable wordToSpan = new SpannableString(tv.getText());
for (int ofs = 0; ofs < tvt.length() && ofe != -1; ofs = ofe + 1) {
ofe = tvt.indexOf(textToHighlight, ofs);
if (ofe == -1)
break;
else {
// set color here
wordToSpan.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(0xFFFFFF00), ofe, ofe + textToHighlight.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
tv.setText(wordToSpan, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
}
}
}Copyright © 2021 Codeinu
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