how to remove underline for textview in android

Question

I have seen many questions regarding removing of underline for autolink of textview.

But for me, I am unable to remove underline for normal textview. I set the underline by:

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

Answer 1

You can try

 textview.setPaintFlags(textview.getPaintFlags() & (~ Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG));

or more broadly just set,

textview.setPaintFlags(0) but the first option is more exact

Answer 2

Here is technique you can try to remove underline from any textview or edit text using the given below example code snippet

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/et"
    android:layout_width="250dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
    android:hint="This is first EditText"
    android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
    android:background="@null"
    />

Use of the attribute

android:background="@null"

you can remove underline from textview or edit text

You can also try putting transparent color to the background to remove underline beneath a textview.

Answer 3

Maybe it's too late to answer this good question but I share my experience; perhaps it might be helpful for some one.

There is a really practical and easy way to remove underline for a text. And that is: textview.setPaintFlags(View.INVISIBLE);

It works perfect for me.