Added in API level 1

android.text.style

Provides classes used to view or change the style of a span of text in a View object. The classes with a subclass Standard are passed in to SpannableString.setSpan() or SpannableStringBuilder.setSpan() to add a new styled span to a string in a View object.

Interfaces

AlignmentSpan Span that allows defining the alignment of text at the paragraph level. 
LeadingMarginSpan A paragraph style affecting the leading margin. 
LeadingMarginSpan.LeadingMarginSpan2 An extended version of LeadingMarginSpan, which allows the implementor to specify the number of lines of the paragraph to which this object is attached that the "first line of paragraph" margin width will be applied to. 
LineBackgroundSpan Used to change the background of lines where the span is attached to. 
LineHeightSpan The classes that affect the line height of paragraph should implement this interface. 
LineHeightSpan.WithDensity The classes that affect the line height of paragraph with respect to density, should implement this interface. 
ParagraphStyle The classes that affect paragraph-level text formatting implement this interface. 
TabStopSpan Paragraph affecting span that changes the position of the tab with respect to the leading margin of the line. 
UpdateAppearance The classes that affect character-level text in a way that modifies their appearance when one is added or removed must implement this interface. 
UpdateLayout The classes that affect character-level text formatting in a way that triggers a text layout update when one is added or removed must implement this interface. 
WrapTogetherSpan  

Classes

AbsoluteSizeSpan A span that changes the size of the text it's attached to. 
AlignmentSpan.Standard Default implementation of the AlignmentSpan. 
BackgroundColorSpan Changes the background color of the text to which the span is attached. 
BulletSpan A span which styles paragraphs as bullet points (respecting layout direction). 
CharacterStyle The classes that affect character-level text formatting extend this class. 
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. 
DrawableMarginSpan A span which adds a drawable and a padding to the paragraph 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. 
EasyEditSpan Provides an easy way to edit a portion of text. 
ForegroundColorSpan Changes the color of the text to which the span is attached. 
IconMarginSpan Paragraph affecting span, that draws a bitmap at the beginning of a 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. 
LeadingMarginSpan.Standard The standard implementation of LeadingMarginSpan, which adjusts the margin but does not do any rendering. 
LineBackgroundSpan.Standard Default implementation of the LineBackgroundSpan, which changes the background color of the lines to which the span is attached. 
LineBreakConfigSpan LineBreakSpan for changing line break style of the specific region of the text. 
LineHeightSpan.Standard Default implementation of the LineHeightSpan, which changes the line height of the attached paragraph. 
LocaleSpan Changes the Locale 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. 
NoWritingToolsSpan A span that signals to IMEs that writing tools should not modify the text. 
QuoteSpan A span which styles paragraphs by adding a vertical stripe at the beginning of the text (respecting layout direction). 
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. 
StrikethroughSpan A span that strikes through the text it's attached to. 
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. 
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. 
SuperscriptSpan The span that moves the position of the text baseline higher. 
TabStopSpan.Standard The default implementation of TabStopSpan that allows setting the offset of the tab stop from the leading margin of the first line of text. 
TextAppearanceSpan Sets the text appearance using the given TextAppearance attributes. 
TtsSpan A span that supplies additional meta-data for the associated text intended for text-to-speech engines. 
TtsSpan.Builder<C extends Builder<?>> A simple builder for TtsSpans. 
TtsSpan.CardinalBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_CARDINAL. 
TtsSpan.DateBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_DATE. 
TtsSpan.DecimalBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_DECIMAL. 
TtsSpan.DigitsBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_DIGITS. 
TtsSpan.ElectronicBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_ELECTRONIC. 
TtsSpan.FractionBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_FRACTION. 
TtsSpan.MeasureBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_MEASURE. 
TtsSpan.MoneyBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_MONEY. 
TtsSpan.OrdinalBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_ORDINAL. 
TtsSpan.SemioticClassBuilder<C extends SemioticClassBuilder<?>> A builder for TtsSpans, has setters for morphosyntactic features. 
TtsSpan.TelephoneBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_TELEPHONE. 
TtsSpan.TextBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_TEXT. 
TtsSpan.TimeBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_TIME. 
TtsSpan.VerbatimBuilder A builder for TtsSpans of type TtsSpan.TYPE_VERBATIM. 
TypefaceSpan Span that updates the typeface of the text it's attached to. 
UnderlineSpan A span that underlines the text it's attached to. 
URLSpan Implementation of the ClickableSpan that allows setting a url string.