Different font size of strings in the same TextView

Just in case you're wondering how you can set multiple different sizes in the same textview, but using an absolute size and not a relative one, you can achieve that using AbsoluteSizeSpan instead of a RelativeSizeSpan.

Just get the dimension in pixels of the desired text size

int textSize1 = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.text_size_1);
int textSize2 = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.text_size_2);

and then create a new AbsoluteSpan based on the text

String text1 = "Hi";
String text2 = "there";

SpannableString span1 = new SpannableString(text1);
span1.setSpan(new AbsoluteSizeSpan(textSize1), 0, text1.length(), SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);

SpannableString span2 = new SpannableString(text2);
span2.setSpan(new AbsoluteSizeSpan(textSize2), 0, text2.length(), SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);

// let's put both spans together with a separator and all
CharSequence finalText = TextUtils.concat(span1, " ", span2);

You can get this done using html string and setting the html to Textview using
txtView.setText(Html.fromHtml("Your html string here"));

For example :

txtView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<html><body><font size=5 color=red>Hello </font> World </body><html>"));`

Method 1

public static void increaseFontSizeForPath(Spannable spannable, String path, float increaseTime) {
    int startIndexOfPath = spannable.toString().indexOf(path);
    spannable.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(increaseTime), startIndexOfPath,
            startIndexOfPath + path.length(), 0);
}

using

Utils.increaseFontSizeForPath(spannable, "big", 3); // make "big" text bigger 3 time than normal text

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Method 2

public static void setFontSizeForPath(Spannable spannable, String path, int fontSizeInPixel) {
    int startIndexOfPath = spannable.toString().indexOf(path);
    spannable.setSpan(new AbsoluteSizeSpan(fontSizeInPixel), startIndexOfPath,
            startIndexOfPath + path.length(), 0);
}

using

Utils.setFontSizeForPath(spannable, "big", (int) textView.getTextSize() + 20); // make "big" text bigger 20px than normal text

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Use a Spannable String

 String s= "Hello Everyone";
 SpannableString ss1=  new SpannableString(s);
 ss1.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(2f), 0,5, 0); // set size
 ss1.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 0, 5, 0);// set color
 TextView tv= (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
 tv.setText(ss1);

Snap shot

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You can split string using space and add span to the string you require.

 String s= "Hello Everyone";  
 String[] each = s.split(" ");

Now apply span to the string and add the same to textview.

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