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I need to change the color of only a file from my string

I have the following string:

<string name="welcome.location.services">Please <font color='green'>ALLOW</font> Passenger to access your location in order to track your trips.</string>

If I leave it like this, it will colour ALLOW with the default green. But I need a different colour there. How can I change it? Tried: 

<font color='#ff00ff'>ALLOW</font>

But the word will have no colour like this. I want to do it in the strings.xml cause I have more files for each language, and the words length and start index is different, making spannable strings hard to work with

PS: I tried using HTML.fromHTML but still no luck:

((TextView)dialog.findViewById(R.id.header4)).setText(Html.fromHtml(context.getString(R.string.welcome_location_services)));

Where the string is:

<string name="welcome.location.services">Please <font color='#ffff00d3'>ALLOW</font> Passenger to access your location in order to track your trips.</string>
Solution

  • try this, and let me know.

    String s = "Hello World, I'm the rest.";
 String[] result = s.split(" ", 2);
 String first = result[0];
 String rest = result[1];

 first = "<font color='#EE0000'>red</font>";
 t.setText(Html.fromHtml(first + rest));