Using bold text in remote view

Question

 //Setting our own layout for notification (instead of the regular android notification)
            RemoteViews contentView = new RemoteViews(packageName, R.layout.new_event_notification);
            contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.eventName,  eventToDisplay.getName());

            DateTime todayDate = new DateTime().now();


            //If the event's date equal to today's date
            if ((Days.daysBetween(eventToDisplay.getEventDate().withTimeAtStartOfDay(),todayDate.withTimeAtStartOfDay()).getDays())==0)
            {
                SpannableString eventDayOfTheWeekTxt= new SpannableString("Today");
                eventDayOfTheWeekTxt.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD),0,4,0);
                contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.eventDayOfTheWeekTxt, eventDayOfTheWeekTxt+ "(" + eventToDisplay.getEventDate().dayOfWeek().getAsText() + ")");

            }

I'm trying to make the word "today" bold, and I found something in this forum as you can see... But it didn't work.

EDITED CODE:

 //If the event's date equal to today's date
            if ((Days.daysBetween(eventToDisplay.getEventDate().withTimeAtStartOfDay(),todayDate.withTimeAtStartOfDay()).getDays())==0)
            {
                SpannableString eventDayOfTheWeekTxt= new SpannableString("Today");
                contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.eventDayOfTheWeekTxt, eventDayOfTheWeekTxt+ "(" + eventToDisplay.getEventDate().dayOfWeek().getAsText() + ")");
                eventDayOfTheWeekTxt.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), 0, 4, 0);


            }

Answer 1

That is because you are removing the spans via your concatenation. Either use TextUtils.concat() instead of +, or apply your BOLD span after the string concatenation.

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In Java programming, concatenation creates new objects.

Replace:

SpannableString eventDayOfTheWeekTxt= new SpannableString("Today");
contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.eventDayOfTheWeekTxt, eventDayOfTheWeekTxt+ "(" + eventToDisplay.getEventDate().dayOfWeek().getAsText() + ")");
eventDayOfTheWeekTxt.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), 0, 4, 0);

with:

SpannableStringBuilder eventDayOfTheWeekTxt=new SpannableStringBuilder("Today");

eventDayOfTheWeekTxt.append("(");
eventDayOfTheWeekTxt.append(eventToDisplay.getEventDate().dayOfWeek().getAsText());
eventDayOfTheWeekTxt.append(")");
eventDayOfTheWeekTxt.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), 0, 4, 0);
contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.eventDayOfTheWeekTxt, eventDayOfTheWeekTxt);