Android：将不同的格式样式应用于一个textview

Question

I have one text view in my XML and in that text view i have a large number of text which i would like to apply different formatting styles to different text in the text view. Like center alignment,different fonts,different font size and underline.How do I achieve this? My sample code is below:

String [] item = {"Chicken BBQ bacon \n \n BBQ Chicken,Bacon,Sweet Corn,Onion \n \n <b>Regular</b> sh 500 \n \n Medium sh 700 \n \n Large sh 900 \n \n","Chicken and Mushroom \n \n chicken,mushroom \n \n Regular  Medium  Large \n \n sh500 sh700 sh900"}

description.setText(Html.fromHtml(item[x]));

Answer 1

You should use SpannableString
Take a look for an example here:
Different font size of strings in the same TextView
Or using HTML tags, take a look:
http://daniel-codes.blogspot.co.il/2011/04/html-in-textviews.html

Answer 2

Well I found an interesting library regarding Textview

advanced android Textview

You can add various Styles,arbitary fractions,Spannable Strings,Alignment Span,Rainbow Span,Unicode with System fonts,Custom Fonts etc.

Hope it helps to enhance your creativity more!!Happy Coding!!