As far as I understand the first argument: it is whatever object you want to use for tagging that span of text. It's up to your app to come up with the right interpretation. If you want to use the span for formatting you can use one of the CharacterStyle<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/style/CharacterStyle.html>objects as first argument.
Here is a tutorial about rich style formatting with spannable strings: http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/android_textview_rich_text_spannablestring On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 1:10:35 PM UTC-5, bob wrote: > > I'm trying to learn about SpannableStrings, and it is boiling down to this > setSpan method: > > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/SpannableString.html#setSpan(java.lang.Object, > > int, int, int) > > However, of course, the method is completely undocumented, and it is not > clear what ought to be passed into the first > parameter. Am I missing something here, or did they just forget to write > this? > > -- 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
