# RichTextView Library Released

DevFeed: [RichTextView Library Released](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/richtextview-library-released-22833.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://androidessence.com/richtextview-library-released/>)

Author: Adam McNeilly

Published: 2016-04-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Android Essence](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/android-essence.md>)

Topics: [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>)

Tags: [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces RichTextView, a library that simplifies formatting different parts of an Android TextView, including applying bold formatting to only part of a string. It uses SpannableString internally and provides guidance for inclusion in projects through GitHub.

## Source excerpt

As a form of ultimate procrastination this weekend, I decided to spend the last two days developing a RichTextView library. This weekend I built the RichTextView (the naming convention comes from the RichTextBox C# class) which allows the user to format different parts ofa. TextView in different ways. For example, if I wanted to display a string but only bold a portion of it, I could achieve that with this class.