Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright (C) Azureus Software, Inc, All Rights Reserved. * <p/> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ import android.graphics.Canvas; import android.graphics.ColorFilter; import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable; import android.text.SpannableString; import android.text.style.CharacterStyle; import android.text.style.ImageSpan; public class Main { public static void setSpanBetweenTokens(SpannableString ss, String text, String token, CharacterStyle... cs) { // Start and end refer to the points where the span will apply int tokenLen = token.length(); int base = 0; while (true) { int start = text.indexOf(token, base); int end = text.indexOf(token, start + tokenLen); if (start < 0 || end < 0) { break; } base = end + tokenLen; for (CharacterStyle c : cs) { ss.setSpan(CharacterStyle.wrap(c), start + tokenLen, end, 0); } Drawable blankDrawable = new Drawable() { @Override public void setColorFilter(ColorFilter cf) { } @Override public void setAlpha(int alpha) { } @Override public int getOpacity() { return 0; } @Override public void draw(Canvas canvas) { } }; // because AbsoluteSizeSpan(0) doesn't work on older versions ss.setSpan(new ImageSpan(blankDrawable), start, start + tokenLen, 0); ss.setSpan(new ImageSpan(blankDrawable), end, end + tokenLen, 0); } } }