How to show html code on button in Android and style it - android

I want to put html codes on buttons as text in my android application and style them.
For ex: I want to create a help button and put "❔" as text to it.
Below is the code I have written in the activity.
Button btHelp=((Button) findViewById(R.id.btHelp));
btHelp.setText(Html.fromHtml("❔"));
But if I want to change the color of it. I tried by giving span and font in the above statement but it is not applying.
Can you please let me know how to give the colors for this. Also let me know if there is any better way to do so.
Thanks,

If you want to change text color, simply use:
btnHelp.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FF0000"));
or
btnHelp.setTextColor(Color.RED);
or
btnHelp.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.red));
But that won't work with emojis like your White Question Mark Ornament. If you want to change that question mark color, you will have to make a drawable file with button drawables (png) that have that question mark with the color you want. You can do that from photoshop or any other program.

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