Is there an easy way to strike through text in an app widget?

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To do it programatically in a textview, untested in other views >>

TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mytext);
tv.setText("This is strike-thru");
tv.setPaintFlags(tv.getPaintFlags() | Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG);

Another way to do it programmatically which looks a bit less like a hack than the Paint way:

Instead of doing:

tv.setText(s);

do:

private static final StrikethroughSpan STRIKE_THROUGH_SPAN = new StrikethroughSpan();
...
tv.setText(s, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
Spannable spannable = (Spannable) tv.getText();
spannable.setSpan(STRIKE_THROUGH_SPAN, 0, s.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

You can use this:

remoteviews.setInt(R.id.YourTextView, "setPaintFlags", Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG | Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);

Of course you can also add other flags from the android.graphics.Paint class.

2015 Update: Folks, this is for very old versions of Android. See other answers for modern solutions!

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To strike through the entire text view, you can use a specific background image to simulate the strikethrough effect:

android:background="@drawable/bg_strikethrough"

Where the bg_strikethrough drawable is a 9-patch that keeps a solid line through the middle, growing either side, with however much padding you think is reasonable. I've used one like this:

(enlarged for clarity.. 1300% !)

That is my HDPI version, so save it (the first one http://i.stack.imgur.com/nt6BK.png) as res/drawable-hdpi/bg_strikethrough.9.png and the configuration will work as so:

For doing this you can use this

 title.setPaintFlags(title.getPaintFlags() | Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG);

and for remove you can use this

 title.setPaintFlags(title.getPaintFlags() & (~Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG));