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Sam97305421562
Sam97305421562

Reputation: 3037

Changing font color runtime Android

I am using EditText for getting userInput but the problem I am facing is that I want to change the font color at runtime but in the same Edittext as I am able to change the font type but as I change the font color it changes for the whole editext but I need to change the color for specfic text only .

And one more issue issue is that when making an edittext with the height more than the "fillparent" property I am getting the cursor postion in middle but I want it to be at the top always i.e. at the start ..

Is there any other widget available which will provide me the solution for both the problems?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3774

Answers (1)

Josef Pfleger
Josef Pfleger

Reputation: 74517

Alignment of text within an EditText widget can be controlled via gravity:

editText.setGravity(Gravity.TOP);

To attach markup objects to the EditText's content you can use the Editable interface:

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editview);
SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder();
builder.append("one red word");
builder.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 4, 7, Spanned.SPAN_COMPOSING);
editText.setText(builder, BufferType.EDITABLE);

Upvotes: 4

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