You don't have to set the text first. There is nothing stopping you
from creating a Spannable string and feeding that to setText(). I do
the same thing using SpannableStringBuilder.

On Oct 22, 10:27 am, Jiri <jiriheitla...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thank you,
>
> so I would first have to set the string to the field and then retrieve
> it again using getText and then style it. That seems a bit of a way around.
>
> Well if thats how they made it, then thats how I will use it :) Or do I
> misunderstand it?
>
> Jiri
>
> skink wrote:
>
> > On Oct 22, 4:57 pm, Jiri <jiriheitla...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello list,
>
> >> If I have a string resource, for instance:
>
> >> Hello world
>
> >> and I want to have "world" be colored differently when i put it to a
> >> TextView. How do I do this?
>
> >> Jiri
>
> > Jiri,
>
> > use setSpan method
>
> > pskink
>
>
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