Edittext With Different Color In Android

Am facing some problem with edit text, actually what I need is 1st 10 letters typed should be in red colour and the letter's typed after this should be in grey colour. I did with t

Solution 1:

Try this code (I've tested it and works as expected):

finalEditTextinput= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.my_edittext);
input.addTextChangedListener(newTextWatcher() {
        @OverridepublicvoidbeforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}

        @OverridepublicvoidonTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

            Spannablespannable= input.getText();
            if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(s) && s.length() > 9){
                spannable.setSpan(newForegroundColorSpan(ContextCompat.getColor(MainActivity.this, R.color.my_color_red)),
                        0, 10, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            }
        }

        @OverridepublicvoidafterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
    });

Solution 2:

Try using Spannable

Spannablespannable= myEditText.getText();
spannable.setSpan(newForegroundColorSpan(getResources().getColor(R.color.red)), 0, 9, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

Solution 3:

Use Spannable String for this as

SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder();

SpannableString redSpannable= new SpannableString("yourstring");
redSpannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 0, 11, 0);
builder.append(redSpannable);

SpannableString whiteSpannable= new SpannableString("next string");
whiteSpannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.WHITE), 11, 20, 0);
builder.append(whiteSpannable);

editText.setText(builder, BufferType.SPANNABLE);