Shortcut for making text Style bold

I know how to set the Text Style bold. But is there any Shortcut as like <B> tag in HTML that can make Some words as bold. Ex. : phone:9825056129

In above text i want to set开发者_运维知识库 the phone as bold and the remaining as the normal text. So is it possible ?

Use setspan as showun in following link http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/text/Link.html

Yes. Write your text as HTML and then use Html.fromHtml to get it into a form that is understood by TextView

E.g.

TextView mtv = ...
mtv.setText(Html.fromHtml(s + " <b>" + status.getInReplyToScreenName() + "</b>"));