A simpler way to style your TextViews

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TextView/EditText BabushkaText
Overview

BabushkaText

BabushkaText is a custom TextView which lets you customize the styling of parts of your text via Spannables, but without the hassle of having to deal directly with Spannable themselves.

  • Create complex style structures for your text without having to add multiple TextViews to your view hierarchy.
  • Eliminate setSpan(Object what, int start, int end, int flags) calls by using more convenient methods such as .style(Typeface.BOLD), .superscript() and others.

What can I do with BabushkaText?

Examples of different styles. Each one is a single TextView.

Logo

Example

Generate the following style:

NewY York

With the code below:

        BabushkaText babushka = (BabushkaText)findViewById(R.id.babushka_text);

        // Add the first piece "Central Park"
        babushka.addPiece(new BabushkaText.Piece.Builder("Central Park, NY\n")
                .textColor(Color.parseColor("#414141"))
                .build());

        // Add the second piece "1.2 mi"
        babushka.addPiece(new BabushkaText.Piece.Builder("1.2 mi ")
                .textColor(Color.parseColor("#0081E2"))
                .textSizeRelative(0.9f)
                .build());

        // Add the third piece "from here"
        babushka.addPiece(new BabushkaText.Piece.Builder("from here")
                .textColor(Color.parseColor("#969696"))
                .textSizeRelative(0.9f)
                .build());

        // Display the final, styled text
        babushka.display();

What kind of styles can I add?

Right now you can customize the style of your text by using the following methods, which internally get converted to the corresponding Spannables

Babushka Method Internal Span
textSize AbsoluteSizeSpan
textColor ForegroundColorSpan
textSizeRelative RelativeSizeSpan
backgroundColor BackgroundColorSpan
style StyleSpan
underline UnderlineSpan
strike StrikethroughSpan
superscript SuperscriptSpan
subscript SubscriptSpan

What else can I do?

Once you've created and displayed your BabushkaText, you can modify the text contents of each Piece individually. For example, if we want to change the 1.2 mi from the above example into 1.9 km, we could do the following:

// grab the Piece at position 1
Piece piece = babushka.getPiece(1);

// modify it's text
piece.setText("1.9 km ");

// you must always call display after you alter a Piece's text
babushka.display();

Download

BabushkaText is a single Java file, so you can simply download it and reference it in your project.

Download BabushkaText.java here: BabushkaText

Or if you prefer, you can simply download the JAR

Contact Me

If you find any bugs or have a problem while using this library, please open an issue in this repo (or a pull request :)).

License

Copyright 2014 Henrique Boregio

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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Comments
  • How to use it in xml eclypse file ?

    How to use it in xml eclypse file ?

    Hi, I was looking for your amazing Babushka Text, I implemented it on my java class file, all ok, but I need to link it was Resource (you said : BabushkaText babushka = (BabushkaText)findViewById(R.id.babushka_text);), and when I do it (for me : BabushkaText text = (BabushkaText)findViewById(R.id.text_preview);) where text_preview is a TextView, there's an error (normal :D) ! So, how could I implement the Babushka on XML file ? Thank you, and, have a good day ! PS : My text_preview on XML is :+1:

    opened by OwnHno 3
  • set text color has no effect

    set text color has no effect

    For example:

    bt.addPiece(new BabushkaText.Piece.Builder("please\n")
            .style(Typeface.BOLD)
            .textSize(35)
            .build());
bt.addPiece(new BabushkaText.Piece.Builder("change textcolor")
            .textSize(20)
            .build());
bt.display();

    I get textview with black text colour (default color) Then I call

    bt.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));

    And textColor remains black. I understand what there is no built-in ability to change spannable text colour on the fly, but it's would be very helpful function.

    enhancement 
    opened by IlyaEremin 1
  • List Adapter problem

    List Adapter problem

    Hi Thank for your effort. I have a question about this class.

    When i use this in the list view..

    AirPortName.addPiece(new BabushkaText.Piece.Builder(listData.get(position).getAirPortName()) .backgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#DFF1FE")) .textColor(Color.parseColor("#073680")) .style(Typeface.BOLD) .build()); AirPortName.display();

    this is my code.

    But problem is ..duplicated the text when i scroll up and down.

    so..I try this code

    AirPortName = (BabushkaText)row.findViewById(R.id.title); AirPortName.reset(); AirPortName.addPiece(new BabushkaText.Piece.Builder(listData.get(position).getAirPortName()) .backgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#DFF1FE")) .textColor(Color.parseColor("#073680")) .style(Typeface.BOLD) .build()); AirPortName.display();

    Use this... AirPortName.reset();

    is it right?

    Thanks a lot.

    opened by sangrime 1
  • i have a problem..

    i have a problem..

    i want to use babushktext, so i copy .java code. but i have a problem with my code... I'd really appreciate it if you help me ------------solve it kkk.... how do i delete this post-------- 2017-04-01_13-01-13

    opened by hyekie 1
  • 修改了 DEFAULT_ABSOLUTE_TEXT_SIZE 静态变态对别的textview的影响

    修改了 DEFAULT_ABSOLUTE_TEXT_SIZE 静态变态对别的textview的影响

    if (aPiece.textSize==0)

    •    {

    •        aPiece.textSize = DEFAULT_ABSOLUTE_TEXT_SIZE;

    •    }

    •    finalString.setSpan(new AbsoluteSizeSpan(aPiece.textSize), start, end, Spannable

    •            .SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    opened by Aarthas 0
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