Different color of texts in the same textview

Question

I am using following code

 Spannable wordtoSpan = new SpannableString(getString(R.string.signup_text));
    wordtoSpan.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLACK), 0, 18, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    signupText.setText(wordtoSpan);

However my textView is showing the same color as set in its xml ie skin color.

I want to show substring from 0 - 18 as BLACK and rest color as skin color. What is wrong here?

Answer 1

Try like this :

Resources res = getResources();

Spannable wordtoSpan = new SpannableString(res.getString(R.string.signup_text));

Answer 2

I dunno whether you are trying to use two colors in the same string if so,You could try some thing like this

In your strings.xml

  <string name="hello"><![CDATA[ TEXT IN BLACK <b><font color=#ff0000>TEXT IN RED</b>]]></string>

in your activity

textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.hello)));

Then TEXT IN BLACK will be seen in normal color and TEXT IN RED will be shown in red color