Set underline text to TextView in android programmatically

Question

I want to know how to set underline text to TextView in android? Please make a note that I don't have capability to set a strings.xml with pre-populated strings is there any way to add it with pure java code in Android.

Answer 1

Try this code:

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

Answer 2

Here is the simplest way

TextView theTextView = new TextView(this);  theTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<u>Text to underline</u>"));