I'm trying to replace part of an Editable
returned from getText()
with a span.
I've tried getText().replace()
but that's only for CharSequences
.
The reason I'm trying to do this is so I can highlight sections of an EditText
one after another (after a small delay), instead of going through and highlighting the whole EditText
(which can be slow with big files).
Does anyone have a clue about how I'd go about doing this?
This minimal size example makes the word 'first' large:
public class SpanTest extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
String dispStr = "I'm the first line\nI'm the second line";
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
int startSpan = dispStr.indexOf("first");
int endSpan = dispStr.indexOf("line");
Spannable spanRange = new SpannableString(dispStr);
TextAppearanceSpan tas = new TextAppearanceSpan(this, android.R.style.TextAppearance_Large);
spanRange.setSpan(tas, startSpan, endSpan, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
tv.setText(spanRange);
}
}
You can adapt it to your needs
I answered a smilar question recently: How to use SpannableString with Regex in android?. But I'll add a copy of that answer.
Here's a class that will help you:
public class Replacer {
private final CharSequence mSource;
private final CharSequence mReplacement;
private final Matcher mMatcher;
private int mAppendPosition;
private final boolean mIsSpannable;
public static CharSequence replace(CharSequence source, String regex,
CharSequence replacement) {
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(source);
return new Replacer(source, matcher, replacement).doReplace();
}
private Replacer(CharSequence source, Matcher matcher,
CharSequence replacement) {
mSource = source;
mReplacement = replacement;
mMatcher = matcher;
mAppendPosition = 0;
mIsSpannable = replacement instanceof Spannable;
}
private CharSequence doReplace() {
SpannableStringBuilder buffer = new SpannableStringBuilder();
while (mMatcher.find()) {
appendReplacement(buffer);
}
return appendTail(buffer);
}
private void appendReplacement(SpannableStringBuilder buffer) {
buffer.append(mSource.subSequence(mAppendPosition, mMatcher.start()));
CharSequence replacement = mIsSpannable
? copyCharSequenceWithSpans(mReplacement)
: mReplacement;
buffer.append(replacement);
mAppendPosition = mMatcher.end();
}
public SpannableStringBuilder appendTail(SpannableStringBuilder buffer) {
buffer.append(mSource.subSequence(mAppendPosition, mSource.length()));
return buffer;
}
// This is a weird way of copying spans, but I don't know any better way.
private CharSequence copyCharSequenceWithSpans(CharSequence string) {
Parcel parcel = Parcel.obtain();
try {
TextUtils.writeToParcel(string, parcel, 0);
parcel.setDataPosition(0);
return TextUtils.CHAR_SEQUENCE_CREATOR.createFromParcel(parcel);
} finally {
parcel.recycle();
}
}
}
And an example of usage:
CharSequence modifiedText = Replacer.replace("ABC aaa AB ABC aa ad ABC", "ABC",
Html.fromHtml("<font color=\"red\">CBA</font>"));
textView.setText(modifiedText);