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Android - SpannableString is a class for text whose content is immutable but to which markup objects can be attached and detached.

SpannableString is a class for text whose content is immutable but to which markup objects can be attached and detached used in Android development.

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Edit text view with image and text wrapped around image

I am building a rich text editor. I have implemented text formatting like bold italic etc and also paragraph formatting like blockQuote. Now I would like to add images in editor and text should wrap around it. I have implemented all these using…
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Can I convert a Spannable to a String in android in order to load an ExpandableListView?

I created an array, which I then load into a HashMap, which I then use in an ExpandableListView. However, I'd like to have parts of the data display with subscript and superscript for exponents. After much googling, the solution to superscript and…
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spannablestring is not working for programmatically created button

I know SpannableString is possible to set different text size in one textview but if textview is added programmatically it's not working. String s = "Best Ever"; SpannableString ss1 = new SpannableString(s); ss1.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(2f), 0,…
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Aligning ImageSpan to the top of the TextView

Currently, I wish to add an image in between texts and align it to the top of the TextView. Something like this: The only vertical alignments I can find are baseline (which seems to put it right down the center of the text) and align bottom. What…
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java.lang.ClassCastException: android.text.SpannableStringBuilder cannot be cast to java.util.ArrayList

I'm using the phonegap Android plugin: EmailComposerwithAttachments https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/EmailComposerWithAttachments and it occurs the following error when executing startActivitywithResult function. I'm…
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Android Spannable Line Height

I have been trying to figure this one out for the last couple of days now, and have had no success... I'm learning android right now, and am currently creating a calculator with history as my learning project. I have a TextView that is responsible…
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How can i have EditText with Clickable Spannables and still selectable by longClick?

I have TextView with spans of type ClickableStringSpan defined as below: public class ClickableStringSpan extends ClickableSpan { private View.OnClickListener mListener; int color; public ClickableStringSpan(View.OnClickListener…
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ReplacementSpan's draw() method isn't called

I set background in string like that: spanString.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(color), 0, 3, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); But I would like to increase left and right padding in this background so I created custom span public class…
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How can I use onTouchListeners on each word in a TextView?

I would like to assign onTouchListeners to each word in a TextView. (Not to link to something on the internet, but just to continue the game logic inside the app). The general action of my game at this point is to see a TextView, touch a word, if…
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Setting a spannable string not working on a simple Textview

I cannot for the life of me understand why this simple code to set a spannable string is not working on this textview. The method below adds a "Today" marker, which should be in green, before the text displaying the date if the date is the current…
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Html Tag Handler not called in Android N for "ul", "li"

We have a custom TagHandler in our app for bulleted list etc. html = "
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Android EditText: How to create an empty bullet paragraph by BulletSpan?

I use the same title with this question, because I think my question is very similar to that one, I read and tested the accepted answer very carefully, however the accepted answer doesn't work for me. Let me describe my question: My code looks…
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Style text of parameter in getString(int resId, Object... formatArgs) method

I have two String resources as such: Give us feedback at %1$s if you want to make the app even better! info@mycompany.com I'd like to style the email part to be blue and…
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Get Spannable String from EditText

I have set a SpannableString to an EditText, now I want to get this text from the EditText and get its markup information. I tried like this: SpannableStringBuilder spanStr = (SpannableStringBuilder) et.getText(); int boldIndex =…
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Replace the characters with Image in string and then set to Textview

This is :) and want to :) replace with :D new image. I have this type of string that is i have got from EditTextbox.NOw i want to replace all ":)" with image1 and ":D" with image2.I want to do like string.replaceall(":)",image1) and…
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