java - (Android) Changing text color in strings.xml -

first, depending on user's actions, want retrieve strings strings.xml resource file:

string option1 = context.getstring(r.string.string_one) string option2 = context.getstring(r.string.string_two) string option3 = context.getstring(r.string.string_three) 

then, pass these strings string[] options custom adapter listview set text of textview

    public choicesadapter(context context, string[] options) {          super(context, r.layout.choice_option_layout_2,choices);     }     @override     public view getview(int position, view convertview, viewgroup parent) {         layoutinflater myinflater = layoutinflater.from(getcontext());         view myview = myinflater.inflate(r.layout.option_list_layout, parent, false);          string option = getitem(position);         textview textview = (textview) myview.findviewbyid(r.id.textview);          textview.settext(html.fromhtml(option));          return myview;     } 

i want different strings in strings.xml file have different colors or different formatting. example, here 1 of strings:

 <string name ="exit"><![cdata[<i>exit</i>]]></string> 

however, when string displayed on screen, shows as: "<i>exit</i>"

so, i'm guessing somewhere in method losing string.xml resource's formatting. how can instead of showing "<i>exit</i>", show "exit" on screen?

i thinking problem use .getstring(). somehow ignoring formatting added in .xml file?

check out http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html#formattingandstyling - example is:

<string name="welcome">welcome <b>android</b>!</string> 

it says can use <b>text</b> bold text, <i>text</i> italic text, , <u>text</u> underlined text.

the important part of is, "normally, won't work because string.format(string, object...)method strip style information string. work-around write html tags escaped entities, recovered fromhtml(string), after formatting takes place."

they "store styled text resource html-escaped string" like

 <string name="exit">&lt;i>exit&lt;/i></string> 

and use:

resources res = getresources(); string text = string.format(res.getstring(r.string.exit)); charsequence styledtext = html.fromhtml(text); 

to formatted text correctly.