public Spannable[] itemsToColoredText() {
// TODO(hal): Generalize this so that different items could have different
// colors and even fonts and sizes
int size = items.size();
int displayTextSize = textSize;
Spannable[] objects = new Spannable[size];
for (int i = 1; i <= size; i++) {
// Note that the ListPicker and otherPickers pickers convert Yail lists to string by calling
// YailList.ToStringArray.
// ListView however, does the string conversion via the adapter, so we must ensure
// that the adapter uses YailListElementToSring
String itemString = YailList.YailListElementToString(items.get(i));
// Is there a more efficient way to do conversion to spannable strings that does not
// need to allocate new objects?
Spannable chars = new SpannableString(itemString);
chars.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(textColor), 0, chars.length(), 0);
if (!container.$form().getCompatibilityMode()) {
displayTextSize = (int) (textSize * container.$form().deviceDensity());
}
chars.setSpan(new AbsoluteSizeSpan(displayTextSize), 0, chars.length(), 0);
objects[i - 1] = chars;
}
return objects;
}
