this is you string.xml
<string name="description">Your description where you want to set the red color <i>here you want to set italic</i> <b> here is your Bold text here</b></string>
your main.xml
and this is your java file
package monstercodz.blogspot.com;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Spannable;
import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
import android.text.style.ForegroundColorSpan;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class AndroidSetTextViewDifferenceColorActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
SpannableStringBuilder text = new SpannableStringBuilder(getResources().getText(R.string.description));
int start = 32;
int end = 52;
TextView display = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.display);
text.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED),start, end, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
display.setText(text);
//display.setTextColor(Color.BLUE);
}
}
you can download the example project by Click here
