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In the edit text, the user should select whether what they type should be bold or italics or normal. In my case when a user selects bold the entire edit text changes to bold and if he again selects italics the entire edit text becomes italics. When the user selects bold types something, it should be bold and when he selects italics or normal the words that he types after that should be italics or normal, not the previous one which is bold. also when I print the input in edit text it is printed as normal even it is given as bold.

I have my code at the bottom

<EditText

    android:id="@+id/check_edittext"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:hint="check"

    />

this is where I have set the edit text to bold or italics

bold.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override

    public void onClick(View v) {

        editCheck.setTypeface(editCheck.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD);

    }

});

italics.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override

    public void onClick(View v) {

        editCheck.setTypeface(editCheck.getTypeface(), Typeface.ITALIC);

    }

});

normal.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override

    public void onClick(View v) {

        editCheck.setTypeface(editCheck.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL);

    }

});

button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override

    public void onClick(View v) {

        result.setText(editCheck.getText().toString());

    }

    });

How can I implement this

If you want different font styles in your text view you can set it from HTML. Take a look to this post:

Is it possible to have multiple styles inside a TextView?

So in your case you can save the text entered in HTML format depending on what the user clicked to put <b> for bold, <i> for italics and so.

This will also help you to print it in the result textView, because you will print it from the HTML.

EDIT: For solve the problem that all your text is getting bold or italic, you must edit your onclick events to know the type of what you are writing. And also use TextWatcher to know what is the inserted text. For example:

int typeFaceSelected = Typeface.NORMAL //private global var with NORMAL as default value

String resultedText = ""; //private global var, this will give to your textview the result of the edittext in HTML

bold.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override

    public void onClick(View v) {

        typeFaceSelected = Typeface.BOLD

    }

});

italics.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override

    public void onClick(View v) {

        typeFaceSelected = Typeface.ITALIC

    }

});

normal.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override

    public void onClick(View v) {

        typeFaceSelected = Typeface.NORMAL

    }

});



//You can edit the text you add

editCheck.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}



        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}



        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

            String sAux = s.toString().subString(start, start + count);



            switch(typeFaceSelected)

            {

                case Typeface.NORMAL:

                    resultedText = sAux;

                break;

                case Typeface.ITALIC:

                    resultedText = "<i>" + sAux + "</i>";

                break;

                case Typeface.BOLD:

                    resultedText = "<b>" + sAux + "</b>";

                break;

            }

            editCheck.setText(Html.fromHtml(resultedText));

        }

});



button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override

    public void onClick(View v) {

        result.setText(HTML.fromHTML(resultedText));

    }

    });

The above code was based on this Differences between TextWatcher 's onTextChanged, beforeTextChanged and afterTextChanged

Also, I haven't test it so I'm not sure if its working or not, but at least I think it is enough to get the idea.