Highlighting Text Color using Html.fromHtml() in Android?

Or far simpler than dealing with Spannables manually, since you didn't say that you want the background highlighted, just the text:

String styledText = "This is <font color='red'>simple</font>.";textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(styledText), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

Using color value from xml resource:

int labelColor = getResources().getColor(R.color.label_color);String сolorString = String.format("%X", labelColor).substring(2); // !!strip alpha value!!Html.fromHtml(String.format("<font color=\"#%s\">text</font>", сolorString), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE); 

This can be achieved using a Spannable String. You will need to import the following

import android.text.SpannableString; import android.text.style.BackgroundColorSpan; import android.text.style.StyleSpan;

And then you can change the background of the text using something like the following:

TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text_login);text.setText("");text.append("Add all your funky text in here");Spannable sText = (Spannable) text.getText();sText.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 1, 4, 0);

Where this will highlight the charecters at pos 1 - 4 with a red color. Hope this helps!