Add formatted text to a ListView

Question

I am looking to add formatted text to a ListView (I would like the text to be the color #33B5E5). This is what I tried so far:

ArrayList myarraylist;
String mystring = "Value I want to add"
myarraylist.add(mystring);
//other functions to set the arraylist

My question is, how would I change the color of mystring? Is it possible to set the text color of a string?

check the answer in this its pretty much the same http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4533440/android-listview-text-color — JRowan, Jun 13 '14 at 02:32
@JRowan Read the question carefully I'm trying to make only some text in the ListView formatted, your link is about making the whole ListView formatted. Read before you comment. — user3728164, Jun 13 '14 at 15:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '14 at 02:32

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I think you are looking for this:

myTextView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.orange.black));

answered Jun 13 '14 at 02:32

Illegal Argument

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '14 at 04:39

You can use ArrayAdapter, and create a List<SpannableString>, SpannableString is implementation of CharSequence, so it can behaviors like CharSequence.

the code below is to create a MAGENTA color text.

msp = new SpannableString("Hello I am colo Magenta"); 
msp.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.MAGENTA), 12, 15, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '14 at 04:43

Add fontcolor to your string...

ArrayList<String> myarraylist = new ArrayList<String>();
        String mystring = "<font color='#33B5E5'>Value I want to add</font>";
        myarraylist.add(mystring);

add it to textview...

((TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvTime)).setText(Html.fromHtml(myarraylist.get(0)), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

Add formatted text to a ListView

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