Highlight text in android studio

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 TextView

Source: stackoverflow.com

How 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);
            }
        }
    }

Source: stackoverflow.com

Similar codes

8 votes118 views1 answer
Import math java
Java
0 vote100 views1 answer
Why String is popular HashMap key in Java?
Java
0 vote102 views1 answer
How to install java jdk 8 on ubuntu 20.04 for spark
Java
0 vote97 views1 answer
Navigation graph setup android
Java
0 vote100 views1 answer
Cannot apply java lang integer android
Java
0 vote121 views1 answer
Java 8 merge 2 collections.
Java
1 vote117 views1 answer
Play ringtone android in infinite loop
Java
0 vote105 views1 answer
Java to python
Java
0 vote101 views1 answer
Rstudio boxplot coloring
Java
0 vote103 views2 answers
How to convert int array to Integer List in java
Java