Highlight-style effect with multiline text in Android

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What I would like to achieve is an effect that looks like this with a TextView:

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Basically having a background, but keeping the space between the lines. The only solution I came up with was using one TextView for each line of text, but I would prefer a cleaner one using only one multiline TextView.

Any ideas?

please check the following answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/8661622/957654 — , Mar 29 '15 at 14:05
Possible duplicate of [TextView with background color and line spacing](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22939862/textview-with-background-color-and-line-spacing) — Evren Ozturk, Jun 06 '17 at 13:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 24 '18 at 09:36

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What you can do is use mark tag in html to textview.

myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<mark>heading highlighted</mark>"));

edited Jan 24 '18 at 09:36

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answered Mar 29 '15 at 13:48

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '15 at 13:53

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Use spanned text for each line. Read the Spannable API.

answered Mar 29 '15 at 13:53

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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please refer to this answer here as it describes how to implement spacing between multiple lines in a TextView , using the following properties :

android:lineSpacingMultiplier 

android:lineSpacingExtra

Hope that Helps . Regards

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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answered Mar 29 '15 at 14:07

The line spacing doesn't work unfortunately, because the background is applied to the whole TextView anyway – Alessandro Roaro Mar 29 '15 at 14:10

Highlight-style effect with multiline text in Android

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