Returns a Spannable CharSequence that applies italics to the concatenation of the specified CharSequence objects. - Android Graphics

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Description

Returns a Spannable CharSequence that applies italics to the concatenation of the specified CharSequence objects.

Demo Code


import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.text.Spannable;
import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
import android.text.Spanned;
import android.text.style.ForegroundColorSpan;
import android.text.style.StyleSpan;

public class Main{
    /**// w w w . j  a va 2s . c  o  m
     * Returns a CharSequence that applies italics to the concatenation
     * of the specified CharSequence objects.
     */
    public static CharSequence italic(CharSequence... content) {
        return apply(content, new StyleSpan(Typeface.ITALIC));
    }
    /**
     * Returns a CharSequence that concatenates the specified array of CharSequence
     * objects and then applies a list of zero or more tags to the entire range.
     *
     * @param content an array of character sequences to apply a style to
     * @param tags the styled span objects to apply to the content
     *        such as android.text.style.StyleSpan
     *
     */
    private static CharSequence apply(CharSequence[] content,
            Object... tags) {
        SpannableStringBuilder text = new SpannableStringBuilder();
        openTags(text, tags);
        for (CharSequence item : content) {
            text.append(item);
        }
        closeTags(text, tags);
        return text;
    }
    /**
     * Iterates over an array of tags and applies them to the beginning of the specified
     * Spannable object so that future text appended to the text will have the styling
     * applied to it. Do not call this method directly.
     */
    private static void openTags(Spannable text, Object[] tags) {
        for (Object tag : tags) {
            text.setSpan(tag, 0, 0, Spannable.SPAN_MARK_MARK);
        }
    }
    /**
     * "Closes" the specified tags on a Spannable by updating the spans to be
     * endpoint-exclusive so that future text appended to the end will not take
     * on the same styling. Do not call this method directly.
     */
    private static void closeTags(Spannable text, Object[] tags) {
        int len = text.length();
        for (Object tag : tags) {
            if (len > 0) {
                text.setSpan(tag, 0, len, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            } else {
                text.removeSpan(tag);
            }
        }
    }
}

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