Android Spannable String example

SpannableString in android is an excellent way to style strings in a TextView.

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Put simply, it allows a TextView to have different styles to different areas of text.

In the following example, we create in Activity to display a single TextView.

The TextView will use a SpannableString as its content, which will illustrate some of the available styles.

Here’ what we’re gonna do with the text :

• Make it larger
• Bold
• Underline
• Italicize
• Strike-through
• Colored
• Highlighted
• Show as superscript
• Show as subscript
• Show as a link
• Make it clickable.

The finished Activity will look like this :

So lets’s dig in :). For simplicity, I’ve limited myself to the onCreate() method of the Activity.