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Reputation: 61

Display text in BOLD

How do I display my text in bold in the graphical layout of my xml? I would like my headings to be in bold, while the results are in normal format. Thank you. I hope you could help me with this matter.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/coordinates"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/instruction" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/result"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/result" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn_process"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/btn_text" />

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="300dp"
            android:orientation="vertical" >

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="Original" />

            <ImageView
                android:id="@+id/imageSource"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:src="@drawable/test_ideal_graph" />

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="Result" />

            <FrameLayout
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/imageAfter"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

                <ProgressBar
                    android:id="@+id/progressBar"
                    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
            </FrameLayout>
        </LinearLayout>
    </ScrollView>

</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2496

Answers (3)

Prateek
Prateek

Reputation: 4013

In strings.xml

<string name="your_string_name"><b> I am bold text</b> And I am not bold</string>

Use this approach to get more flexibility in formatting text.

Also remember to use, Html.fromHtml("your html string"); to set text in the TextView

e.g.

String s="<b> I am text in bold </b> and I am not.";
TextView t=new TextView();
t.setText(Html.fromHtml(s));

Upvotes: 4

Akash
Akash

Reputation: 631

If you want all the text in the TextView to be bold use,

android:textStyle="bold"

If you only want part of it to be bold, you could generate a Spannable from Html using Html.fromHtml() like this :

String text = "This is some <b>sample</b> text"; yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));

Here "sample" would be in bold.

Upvotes: 2

Max
Max

Reputation: 13378

For example:

android:textStyle="bold"

or when italic is wanted:

android:textStyle="italic"

For more information:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/style/package-summary.html

Also have look on this thread for more information:

How do you change text to bold in Android?

Upvotes: 2

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