android - Any way to set span directly to spanable text? -

this may blunder,but need know... :) iam develeoping android application,in in want display 2 type face in single textview , found this 1 useful,a custom typeface span extends typeface span, per understanding , creating spannable follows using 2 words

string firstword = "first "; string secondword = "second"; // create new spannable 2 strings spannable spannable = new spannablestring(firstword+secondword); 

then sets 2 type face words using our custom span

// set custom typeface span on section of spannable object spannable.setspan( new customtypefacespan("sans-serif",custom_typeface), 0,               firstword.length(), spannable.span_exclusive_exclusive); spannable.setspan( new customtypefacespan("sans-serif",second_custom_typeface),   rstword.length(), secondword.length(), spannable.span_exclusive_exclusive); 

now question, have large amount of text if able put spans directly in text more easy ,is possible put spans directly text put <b>bold </b> need use custom typeface span <typeface1> sample </typeface1> <typeface2> doc </typeface2>.

what need is, directly apply change text set span text

is possible, if possible need write span in text,how can achieve this.. or compleatly wrong ?

thank all

very late answer asked pretty easy.

for instance, lets want change between quotation marks italic font.

    string s =  "\"hello name edward\" hola, nombre es edward";             pattern p = pattern.compile("\"([^\"]*)\"");     matcher m = p.matcher(text);     spannable spannable = new spannablestring(s);     while (m.find()) {               int textlocation = text.indexof(m.group(1));         // set custom typeface span on section of spannable object               spannable.setspan( new customtypefacespan("sans-serif",my_italic_font),        textlocation-1, textlocation + m.group(1).length(),spannable.span_exclusive_exclusive);                           // set text of textview spannable object       textview textbox = (textview) v.findviewbyid(r.id.cardtextbox);      }     textbox.settext( spannable ); 

result of s be

"hello name edward" hola, nombre es edward

now instead of quotation marks use regex pattern tags <b>bold </b>;

and remove tags afterwards simple .replace();