Added in API level 1

CharacterStyle


public abstract class CharacterStyle
extends Object

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.text.style.CharacterStyle
BackgroundColorSpan Changes the background color of the text to which the span is attached. 
ClickableSpan If an object of this type is attached to the text of a TextView with a movement method of LinkMovementMethod, the affected spans of text can be selected. 
ForegroundColorSpan Changes the color of the text to which the span is attached. 
MaskFilterSpan Span that allows setting a MaskFilter to the text it's attached to. 
MetricAffectingSpan The classes that affect character-level text formatting in a way that changes the width or height of characters extend this class. 
StrikethroughSpan A span that strikes through the text it's attached to. 
SuggestionRangeSpan A SuggestionRangeSpan is used to show which part of an EditText is affected by a suggestion popup window. 
SuggestionSpan Holds suggestion candidates for the text enclosed in this span. 
UnderlineSpan A span that underlines the text it's attached to. 
AbsoluteSizeSpan A span that changes the size of the text it's attached to. 
DynamicDrawableSpan Span that replaces the text it's attached to with a Drawable that can be aligned with the bottom or with the baseline of the surrounding text. 
ImageSpan Span that replaces the text it's attached to with a Drawable that can be aligned with the bottom or with the baseline of the surrounding text. 
LocaleSpan Changes the Locale of the text to which the span is attached. 
RelativeSizeSpan Uniformly scales the size of the text to which it's attached by a certain proportion. 
ReplacementSpan  
ScaleXSpan Scales horizontally the size of the text to which it's attached by a certain factor. 
StyleSpan Span that allows setting the style of the text it's attached to. 
SubscriptSpan The span that moves the position of the text baseline lower. 
SuperscriptSpan The span that moves the position of the text baseline higher. 
TextAppearanceSpan Sets the text appearance using the given TextAppearance attributes. 
TextLinks.TextLinkSpan A ClickableSpan for a TextLink. 
TypefaceSpan Span that updates the typeface of the text it's attached to. 
URLSpan Implementation of the ClickableSpan that allows setting a url string. 


The classes that affect character-level text formatting extend this class. Most extend its subclass MetricAffectingSpan, but simple ones may just implement UpdateAppearance.

Summary

Public constructors

CharacterStyle()

Public methods

CharacterStyle getUnderlying()

Returns "this" for most CharacterStyles, but for CharacterStyles that were generated by wrap(CharacterStyle), returns the underlying CharacterStyle.

abstract void updateDrawState(TextPaint tp)
static CharacterStyle wrap(CharacterStyle cs)

A given CharacterStyle can only applied to a single region of a given Spanned.

Inherited methods

Object clone()

Creates and returns a copy of this object.

boolean equals(Object obj)

Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.

void finalize()

Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object.

final Class<?> getClass()

Returns the runtime class of this Object.

int hashCode()

Returns a hash code value for the object.

final void notify()

Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor.

final void notifyAll()

Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.

String toString()

Returns a string representation of the object.

final void wait(long timeoutMillis, int nanos)

Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.

final void wait(long timeoutMillis)

Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.

final void wait()

Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted.

Public constructors

CharacterStyle

public CharacterStyle ()

Public methods

getUnderlying

Added in API level 1
public CharacterStyle getUnderlying ()

Returns "this" for most CharacterStyles, but for CharacterStyles that were generated by wrap(CharacterStyle), returns the underlying CharacterStyle.

Returns
CharacterStyle

updateDrawState

Added in API level 1
public abstract void updateDrawState (TextPaint tp)

Parameters
tp TextPaint

wrap

Added in API level 1
public static CharacterStyle wrap (CharacterStyle cs)

A given CharacterStyle can only applied to a single region of a given Spanned. If you need to attach the same CharacterStyle to multiple regions, you can use this method to wrap it with a new object that will have the same effect but be a distinct object so that it can also be attached without conflict.

Parameters
cs CharacterStyle

Returns
CharacterStyle