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How to set TextView textStyle such as bold, italic

How to set TextView style (bold or italic) within Java and without using the XML layout?

In other words, I need to write android:textStyle with Java.


t
thanhbinh84
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);

To keep the previous typeface

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC)

To remove the style can be used Typeface.NORMAL
If you do that, you'll lose any previous typeface. To keep the previous one, do something like textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL); will not remove bold or italic styling from a TextView. You will need to use textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL); for that.
To keep any previous typeface but to get rid of bold or italic style, use following code : textView.setTypeface(Typeface.create(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL), Typeface.NORMAL);
Thanks @Shnkc, You pointed me to the right direction. Actually you just need: textView.setTypeface(Typeface.create(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL));
N
Niranj Patel

Try this to set on TextView for bold or italic

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

Incidentally, if you want to clear an existing typeface style, you'll need to do something different, e.g.: tv.setTypeface(Typeface.create(tv.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL));
@greg7gkb tv.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD); won't this do the same(clear an existing typeface style)?
Passing null into setTypeface() means that the TextView uses a hard-coded default that may be different from the Typeface previously set.
P
Pratik Butani

Programmatically:

You can do programmatically using setTypeface():

textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);      // for Normal Text
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);        // for Bold only
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);      // for Italic
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC); // for Bold and Italic

XML:

You can set Directly in XML file in <TextView /> like:

android:textStyle="normal"
android:textStyle="normal|bold"
android:textStyle="normal|italic"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textStyle="bold|italic"

Questioner asked how to do it without using XML layout.
Check Question with in Java and without using XML By the way It will help to others also.
Yes. I came here via Google and it just helped me. Thanks :)
C
Charuක

You have two options:

Option 1 (only works for bold, italic and underline):

String s = "<b>Bolded text</b>, <i>italic text</i>, even <u>underlined</u>!"
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.THE_TEXTVIEW_ID);
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(s));

Option 2:

Use a Spannable; it is more complicated, but you can dynamically modify the text attributes (not only bold/italic, also colors).


With typeFace you can set a single style for the whole text.
when I am trying in my custom row its not getting why? String s1 = "You are at:"; holder.address = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.address_text_view); holder.address.setText(Html.fromHtml(s1)+ track.getAddress());
This method is great partial text styling. Like a quote inside a large textview.
The first method doesn't work in my case private void createTextView(String title, String text) { textView = new TextView(this); textView.setTextSize(17); textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("" + title + "") + " : " + text); }
The spannable and fromHTML options may slow down typing / setText if the text is big due to layout recalculations. Avoid it if you have other methods available.
d
duggu

Programmatically:

You can do programmatically using setTypeface() method:

Below is the code for default Typeface

textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);      // for Normal Text
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);        // for Bold only
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);      // for Italic
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC); // for Bold and Italic

and if you want to set custom Typeface:

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL);      // for Normal Text
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);        // for Bold only
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);      // for Italic
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC); // for Bold and Italic

XML:

You can set directly in XML file in <TextView /> like this:

android:textStyle="normal"
android:textStyle="normal|bold"
android:textStyle="normal|italic"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textStyle="bold|italic"

Or you can set your fav font (from assets). for more info see link


I've been trying to use this way but when font is set to Typeface.BOLD, everything starts to act weird. Text gets collapsed (aligned vertically instead of horizontal, totally unreadable) and buttons stop responding, messes with listeners.. it goes to normal when i let the custom font Typeface.NORMAL.
C
Charuක
TextView text = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.THE_TEXTVIEW_ID);

now set the textview properties..

text.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);  //-- for only bold the text
text.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);  //-- for  bold & italic the text
text.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);  // -- for  italic the text

C
Charuක

Simply if you want to make text bold. write this line in your layout in text view property

android:textStyle="bold"

J
Janak Nirmal
TextView text = (TextView)findViewById(R.layout.textName);
text.setTypeface(null,Typeface.BOLD);

C
Charuක

It would be

yourTextView.setTypeface(null,Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);

and italic should be able to be with replacing Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD with Typeface.DEFAULT_ITALC.

Let me know how it works.


C
Charuක

try this to set your TextView style by java code

txt1.setTypeface(null,Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

m
mohamad sheikhi

Try this:

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

R
Ravi

You can set the different typeface using the example given below -

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);

Or if you want to set a different font and its typeface . Add it to asset or raw folder and then use it like

  Typeface face= Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font/font.ttf");
  tv1.setTypeface(face);

  Typeface face1= Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font/font1.ttf");
  tv2.setTypeface(face1);

M
Matt

Use textView.setTypeface(Typeface tf, int style); to set style property of the TextView. See the developer documentation for more info.


P
Padma Kumar

Try this:

TextView textview = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview_idname);
textview.setTypeface(null,Typeface.BOLD);

A
Angelo Nodari

And as explained here Android Developers String Resources if you need to use parameters in your styled text resource, you have to escape the opening brackets

<resources>
<string name="welcome_messages">Hello, %1$s! You have &lt;b>%2$d new messages&lt;/b>.</string>
</resources>

and call formatHtml(string)

Resources res = getResources();
String text = String.format(res.getString(R.string.welcome_messages), username, mailCount);
CharSequence styledText = Html.fromHtml(text);

C
Charuක

Standard way to do this is to use the custom styles. Ex-

In styles.xml add the following.

<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name="MyApp.TextAppearance.LoginText">
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold|italic</item>
</style>

Apply this style to your TextView as follows.

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    style="@style/MyApp.TextAppearance.LoginText" />

D
Denny

One way you can do is :

myTextView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);
myTextView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
myTextView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
myTextView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);

Another option if you want to keep the previous typeface and don't want to lose previously applied then:

myTextView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL);      
myTextView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);        
myTextView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);      
myTextView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC); 

A
Amirhf
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.ITALIC);
textView.setTypeface(null, Typeface.NORMAL);

To keep the previous typeface

textView.setTypeface(textView.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC)

m
muzamil

The easiest way you can do based on the style selection criteria is:

String pre = "", post = "";

if(isBold){
    pre += "<b>"; post += "</b>";
}
if(isItalic){
    pre += "<i>"; post += "</i>";
}
if(isUnderline){
    pre += "<u>"; post += "</u>";
}

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(pre + editText.getText().toString()+ post));
// you can also use it with EidtText
editText.setText(Html.fromHtml(pre + editText.getText().toString()+ post));

V
Vishal Vaishnav

You can try like this:

<string name="title"><u><b><i>Your Text</i></b></u></string>

a
aleksandrbel

While using simplified tags with AndroidX consider using HtmlCompat.fromHtml()

String s = "<b>Bolded text</b>, <i>italic text</i>, even <u>underlined</u>!"    
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.THE_TEXTVIEW_ID);
tv.setText(HtmlCompat.fromHtml(s, FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));

S
Stan

Since I want to use a custom font only conjunction of several answers works for me. Obviously settings in my layout.xml like android:textStlyle="italic" was ignored by AOS. So finally I had to do as follows: in strings.xml the target string was declared as:

<string name="txt_sign"><i>The information blah blah ...</i></string>

then additionally in code:

TextView textSign = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txt_sign);
FontHelper.setSomeCustomFont(textSign);
textSign.setTypeface(textSign.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);

I didn't try the Spannable option (which I assume MUST work) but

textSign.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.txt_sign))) 

had no effect. Also if I remove the italic tag from strings.xml leaving the setTypeface() all alone it has no effect either. Tricky Android...


F
FlipNovid

In my case:

1 - set text

2 - set typeface

holder.title.setText(item.nome);
holder.title.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);

d
droid256

This is the only thing that worked for me on a OnePlus 5T configured with the OnePlus Slate™ font:

textView.setTypeface(Typeface.create(textView.getTypeface(), useBold ? Typeface.BOLD : Typeface.NORMAL));

Other methods would make it fall back to Roboto when either BOLD or NORMAL.


C
Charuක

Best way is to define it in styles.xml

<style name="common_txt_style_heading" parent="android:style/Widget.TextView">
        <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/common_txtsize_heading</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/color_black</item>
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold|italic</item>
</style>

And update it in TextView

  <TextView
     android:id="@+id/txt_userprofile"
     style="@style/common_txt_style_heading"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
     android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/margin_small"
     android:text="@string/some_heading" />

T
Tulsi
AppCompatTextView text =(AppCompatTextView)findViewById(R.layout.appCompatTextView1);
text.setTypeface(null,Typeface.BOLD);

Use above method to set the typeface programmatically.


U
Ujjwal Bassi

1) You can set it with TypeFace. 2) You can directly use in strings.xml(in your values folder) 3) You can String myNewString = " This is my bold text This is my italics string This is my underlined string