Android - Multiple styles inside a TextView

I was wondering if its possible to set multiple styles for different pieces of text inside a TextView. For instance, I am setting the text as follows:descbox.setText(line1 + "\n" + line2 + "\n" + word1 + "\t" + word2 + "\t" + word3);

Now, is it possible to have a different style for each text element? I mean bold for line1, normal for word1 and so on...

I found this http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/faq/commontasks.html#selectingtext: // Get our
EditText object.But it uses position numbers inside the text. Is there a cleaner way to do this? EditText vw = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.text);
 // Set the EditText's text.
vw.setText("Italic, highlighted, bold.");
 // If this were just a TextView, we could do: // vw.setText("Italic, highlighted, bold.", TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE); // to force it to use Spannable storage so styles can be attached. // Or we could specify that in the XML.
 // Get the EditText's internal text storage Spannable str = vw.getText();
 // Create our span sections, and assign a format to each.
str.setSpan(new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.ITALIC), 0, 7, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
str.setSpan(new BackgroundColorSpan(0xFFFFFF00), 8, 19, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
str.setSpan(new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD), 21, str.length() - 1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); 

 

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