How to find and highlight a word in a text field in Sketchware?
We can highlight a particular searched character sequence in a TextView or EditText field or any other text field by using Spannable. To use Spannable class to highlight a searched text in Sketchware Android Project, follow the steps given below. 1. In VIEW area of your project, add an EditText field ( edittext1 ) which will act as input field for search term. Add a TextView ( textview1 ) which will display the number of results found. And add another TextView ( textview2 ) or EditText (edittext2) field which will contain the text in which the word is to be searched. 2. In LOGIC area, in onCreate event set the text to be searched in TextView field. 3. If you want the app to search from any text added by user, use EditText instead textview2 in step no.1 and do not set the text in onCreate. 4. Add a new String variable text . Add three number variables total, len and y . 4. Add a new event edittext1 onTextChanged . 5. In the event edittext1 onText