Spannable.Factory

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• Spannable.Factory is used by TextView to create new Spannables, offering the ability to create custom Spannable implementations.

• It provides a method newSpannable to generate a new SpannableString from a given CharSequence, which can be overridden for custom Spannable types.

• Developers can get the standard Spannable.Factory instance using the static getInstance method.

public static class Spannable.Factory extends Object

Factory used by TextView to create new Spannables. You can subclass it to provide something other than SpannableString.

Public Constructor Summary

Factory()

Public Method Summary

static Spannable.Factory	getInstance() Returns the standard Spannable Factory.
Spannable	newSpannable(CharSequence source) Returns a new SpannableString from the specified CharSequence.

Inherited Method Summary

From class java.lang.Object

Object	clone()
boolean	equals(Object arg0)
void	finalize()
final Class<?>	getClass()
int	hashCode()
final void	notify()
final void	notifyAll()
String	toString()
final void	wait(long arg0, int arg1)
final void	wait(long arg0)
final void	wait()

Public Constructors

public Factory ()

Public Methods

public static Spannable.Factory getInstance ()

Returns the standard Spannable Factory.

public Spannable newSpannable (CharSequence source)

Returns a new SpannableString from the specified CharSequence. You can override this to provide a different kind of Spannable.

Parameters

source