If you ever wondered if you can style your text with HTML tags – you absolutely can. For most cases it is enough to use Html.fromHtml or you can use it directly in your string resources. Here are the most used tags:
- Bold:
<b>,<em> - Italic:
<i>,<cite>,<dfn> - 25% increase in text size
<big> - 20% decrease in text size
<small> - Setting font properties:
<font face=”font_family“ color=”hex_color”>. Examples of the possible font families includemonospace,serifandsans_serif. - Setting a monospace font family:
<tt> - Strikethrough:
<s>,<strike>,<del> - Underline:
<u>Superscript:<sup> - Subscript:
<sub> - Bullet points:
<ul>,<li> - Line breaks:
<br> - Division:
<div> - CSS style:
<span style=”color|background_color|text-decoration”> - Paragraphs:
<p dir=”rtl | ltr” style=”…”>
examples taken from this great article: https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/styling-internationalized-text-in-android-f99759fb7b8f