How to set underline text on textview?
You have to use SpannableString for that :
String mystring=new String("Hello.....");
SpannableString content = new SpannableString(mystring);
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, mystring.length(), 0);
yourtextview.setText(content);
Update : You can refer my answer on Underling TextView's here in all possible ways.
Use this
tvHide.setPaintFlags(tvHide.getPaintFlags() | Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG);
Following are the some approaches for underlined text in android:
1st Approach
You can define your string in strings.xml
<string name="your_string"><u>Underlined text</u></string>
And use that string in your xml
file
<TextView
android:id="@+id/txt_underlined"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="@string/your_string"/>
Or you can use that string in your Activity/Fragment
txtView.setText(R.string.your_string);
2nd Approach
To underline the text in TextView, you can use SpannableString
String text="Underlined Text";
SpannableString content = new SpannableString(text);
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, text.length(), 0);
txtView.setText(content);
3rd Approach
You can make use of setPaintFlags method of TextView to underline the text of TextView.
txtView.setPaintFlags(mTextView.getPaintFlags() | Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG);
txtView.setText("Underlined Text");
4th Approach
Make use of Html.fromHtml(htmlString)
;
String htmlString="<u>Underlined Text</u>";
txtView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlString));
Or
txtView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<u>underlined</u> text"));
Note:
If you have added this line android:textAllCaps="true"
in your layout, then none of the above will work. For that, you have to define your string in Caps and then any of the above approach.