How to create your own Text Editor Android App for making text bold, italics, underline, alignment?

How to create your own complete Text Editor Android App to make the selected text bold, italics, underline or set the alignment?

This video shows the steps to create a text editor App in very simple approach.

In this tutorial, it shows how once can make the selected text in the Edit Text or multiline Text box as Bold, Italics or underline. It also shows how to remove any kind of formatting done in the text editor.

It further shows how one can align the text in the multiline text box to Left, Center or Right.

For setting the style of the selected text it uses Spannable APIs of Android. However, for setting the alignment, it uses setTextAlignment property (attribute) of the Multiline Text.

Part 2 of this tutorial can be referred at: https://youtu.be/AAmAeMnpSwQ

or

How to save edited text (bold, italic, underline, alignment) in SQLite database in your Android App?

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Complete Source Code:

package com.programmerworld.texteditorapp;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.Spannable;
import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
import android.text.style.StyleSpan;
import android.text.style.UnderlineSpan;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private EditText editText;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        editText = findViewById(R.id.editTextTextMultiLine);
    }

    public void buttonBold(View view){
        Spannable spannableString = new SpannableStringBuilder(editText.getText());
        spannableString.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD),
                editText.getSelectionStart(),
                editText.getSelectionEnd(),
                0);

        editText.setText(spannableString);
    }
    public void buttonItalics(View view){
        Spannable spannableString = new SpannableStringBuilder(editText.getText());
        spannableString.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.ITALIC),
                editText.getSelectionStart(),
                editText.getSelectionEnd(),
                0);

        editText.setText(spannableString);

    }
    public void buttonUnderline(View view){
        Spannable spannableString = new SpannableStringBuilder(editText.getText());
        spannableString.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(),
                editText.getSelectionStart(),
                editText.getSelectionEnd(),
                0);

        editText.setText(spannableString);
    }

    public void buttonNoFormat(View view){
        String stringText = editText.getText().toString();
        editText.setText(stringText);
    }


    public void buttonAlignmentLeft(View view){
        editText.setTextAlignment(View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_TEXT_START);
        Spannable spannableString = new SpannableStringBuilder(editText.getText());
        editText.setText(spannableString);
    }

    public void buttonAlignmentCenter(View view){
        editText.setTextAlignment(View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_CENTER);
        Spannable spannableString = new SpannableStringBuilder(editText.getText());
        editText.setText(spannableString);
    }

    public void buttonAlignmentRight(View view){
        editText.setTextAlignment(View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_TEXT_END);
        Spannable spannableString = new SpannableStringBuilder(editText.getText());
        editText.setText(spannableString);
    }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editTextTextMultiLine"
        android:layout_width="320dp"
        android:layout_height="217dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="47dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="7dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:gravity="start|top"
        android:hint="@string/type_text_here"
        android:inputType="textMultiLine"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/button4"
        android:autofillHints="" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button"
        android:layout_width="68dp"
        android:layout_height="45dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="22dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:onClick="buttonBold"
        android:text="@string/bold"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="42dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:onClick="buttonItalics"
        android:text="@string/italics"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/button"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="46dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:onClick="buttonUnderline"
        android:text="@string/underline"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/button2"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button4"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="240dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:onClick="buttonNoFormat"
        android:text="@string/no_formatting"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/button3" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button5"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="22dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:onClick="buttonAlignmentLeft"
        android:text="@string/left"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/editTextTextMultiLine" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button6"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="35dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="35dp"
        android:onClick="buttonAlignmentCenter"
        android:text="@string/center"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/button5"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/editTextTextMultiLine" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button7"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="27dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="33dp"
        android:onClick="buttonAlignmentRight"
        android:text="@string/right"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/button6"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/editTextTextMultiLine" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1"

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 29
    buildToolsVersion "29.0.3"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.programmerworld.texteditorapp"
        minSdkVersion 26
        targetSdkVersion 29
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"

        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.1'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.2'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.3.0'

}