When I need to underline text in an app that I’m developing, I like doing it programmatically. The code is in the Java file, not in the XML.
Maybe we should make a function for this where we pass the ID of the TextView whose content we’d like to underline.
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TextView myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTextViewID); String htmlString = "<u>" + myTextView.getText() + "</u>"; myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlString)); |
Disadvantages in this method:
- It’s done in the Java file, not in UI files such as XML. It makes more sense to add codes for styling in XML files to me.
- This underlines all text in the TextView. What if we need to underline only one text in a paragraph?
If you have any suggestion, feel free to comment. 🙂
// EDIT:
Here’s a method I prepared to make underlining TextView values easier:
public void setTextViewUnderline(TextView myTextView){
String htmlString = “” + myTextView.getText() + ““;
myTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlString));
}
