Hi, I am trying to write an app that involves paragraphs of text which I would like to display images behind. What I mean by this is that within a paragraph I would have (for example) the first 3 words with a certain background (ideally a nine-patch style image) then the next 1 word with a different image and the last 7 words with a another image.
Now I know I can achieve a rudimentary version of this with setSpan and BackgroundColor. But instead of a colour I want to set an image as the spans background. I need to do it in a TextView because I require the wrapping of text to occur as normal. Or in other words I need these image spans to be able to cope with being split across 2 lines. Just like a selection can be. I've toyed with using a combination of LinearLayouts, and TextViews to represent spans (which makes the 9 patch easier) but this method makes it tricky to work out how to split the textviews across lines (as the linear layouts work in only one direction). I hope you get what I mean here :) If anyone has any idea how I can achieve this I would be very grateful! I've looked at the available spannable objects here : http://developer.android.com/resources/faq/commontasks.html#selectingtext but I can't find one that seems to do what I want (the descriptions of what they do are a little lacking mind). Well, fingers crossed.... :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
