Can I underline text in an Android layout?

Question

How can I define underlined text in an Android layout xml file?

Answer 1

It can be achieved if you are using a string resource xml file, which supports HTML tags like <b></b>, <i></i> and <u></u>.

<resources>     <string name="your_string_here">This is an <u>underline</u>.</string> </resources> 

If you want to underline something from code use:

TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textview); SpannableString content = new SpannableString("Content"); content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0); textView.setText(content); 

Answer 2

You can try with

textview.setPaintFlags(textview.getPaintFlags() |   Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG);