Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14981307/how-to-set-multiple-spans-on-a-textviews-text-on-the-same-partial-text

SimpleSpanBuilder.java

public class SimpleSpanBuilder {
    private class SpanSection{
        private final String text;
        private final int startIndex;
        private final ParcelableSpan[] spans;

        public SpanSection(String text, int startIndex,ParcelableSpan... spans){
            this.spans = spans;
            this.text = text;
            this.startIndex = startIndex;
        }

        public void apply(SpannableStringBuilder spanStringBuilder){
            if (spanStringBuilder == null) return;
            for (ParcelableSpan span : spans){
                spanStringBuilder.setSpan(span, startIndex, startIndex + text.length(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            }
        }
    }

    private List<SpanSection> spanSections;
    private StringBuilder stringBuilder;

    public SimpleSpanBuilder(){
        stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        spanSections = new ArrayList<>();
    }

    public SimpleSpanBuilder append(String text,ParcelableSpan... spans){
        if (spans != null && spans.length > 0) {
            spanSections.add(new SpanSection(text, stringBuilder.length(),spans));
        }
        stringBuilder.append(text);
        return this;
    }   
    
    public SpannableStringBuilder build(){
        SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder(stringBuilder.toString());
        for (SpanSection section : spanSections){
            section.apply(ssb);
        }
        return ssb;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return stringBuilder.toString();
    }
}