How to set the font style to bold, italic and underlined in an Android TextView?

Question

I want to make a TextView's content bold, italic and underlined. I tried the following code and it works, but doesn't underline.

<Textview android:textStyle="bold|italic" .. 

How do I do it? Any quick ideas?

Answer 1

This should make your TextView bold, underlined and italic at the same time.

strings.xml

<resources>     <string name="register"><u><b><i>Copyright</i></b></u></string> </resources> 

To set this String to your TextView, do this in your main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:id="@+id/textview"     android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:layout_height="fill_parent"     android:text="@string/register" /> 

or In JAVA,

TextView textView = new TextView(this); textView.setText(R.string.register); 

Sometimes the above approach will not be helpful when you might have to use Dynamic Text. So in that case SpannableString comes into action.

String tempString="Copyright"; TextView text=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.text); SpannableString spanString = new SpannableString(tempString); spanString.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, spanString.length(), 0); spanString.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), 0, spanString.length(), 0); spanString.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.ITALIC), 0, spanString.length(), 0); text.setText(spanString); 

OUTPUT

Answer 2

I don't know about underline, but for bold and italic there is "bolditalic". There is no mention of underline here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:textStyle

Mind you that to use the mentioned bolditalic you need to, and I quote from that page

Must be one or more (separated by '|') of the following constant values.

so you'd use bold|italic

You could check this question for underline: Can I underline text in an android layout?