IconicsTextView and Html.fromHtml colors

[SanderTuit]

IconicsTextView doesn't follow HTML colors when using setText(Html.fromHtml('Test: <font color='#FF0000'>Colored text goes here</font>')). Is this intentional, a bug or a feature? ;-)

[mikepenz]

@SanderTuit i assume the spanables which are create by the Html.fromHtml method are overwritten by Android-Iconics. Not sure if it's that easy to keep both.

Is it an required function for you?

[SanderTuit]

Well, I was actually trying to use it to color the icon, but I guess that would be more difficult altogether. My use case is the following. I'm displaying an icon after a username and want to use different colors for different user types. I guess I can use a different kind of View (perhaps IconicsImageView) if supporting Html.fromHtml is not on your todo list. :-)

[mikepenz]

There is something different which allows you to color icons inside a textView :D
Look at the playground activity.

Html.fromHtml is not planned :D

[mikepenz]

Here's a snippet how you can style elements of an TextView with spanables :D

//Show how to style the text of an existing TextView
        TextView tv1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.test1);
        new Iconics.IconicsBuilder().ctx(this)
                .style(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.WHITE), new BackgroundColorSpan(Color.BLACK), new RelativeSizeSpan(2f))
                .styleFor("faw-adjust", new BackgroundColorSpan(Color.RED), new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.parseColor("#33000000")), new RelativeSizeSpan(2f))
                .on(tv1)
                .build();