draw line through text in textview

Question

I have started to make an application similar to concept of "To do task manager", in which i need to make a textview cancelable, like, when user clicks on done image, whole text in the view will be cancelled.

Can anyone please guide me on, how to achieve this mechanism ??

I think this answer will help you: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4752292/617044 — Bill Mote, Apr 12 '13 at 11:36
possible duplicate of [Is there an easy way to strike through text in an app widget?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3881553/is-there-an-easy-way-to-strike-through-text-in-an-app-widget) — Bill Mote, Apr 12 '13 at 11:37

score 67 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '13 at 11:42

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This can help you.

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

You can use it in your code,however necessary.

answered Apr 12 '13 at 11:42

Josyula Krishna

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '19 at 11:41

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In Kotlin

tv.text = "This is text"
tv.paintFlags = tv.paintFlags or Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG

answered Jul 05 '19 at 11:41

Nux

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Thanks nice decision `tv.apply { text = "This is text" paintFlags = paintFlags or Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG }` – Black_Zerg Apr 20 '21 at 11:06

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 21 '21 at 02:20

If you want to strikethrough only part of the TextView text you can use SpannableStringBuilder. Note that it is tv.text = ssb not tv.text = ssb.toString()

val text = "tv.text = ssb.toString()"
val ssb = SpannableStringBuilder(text)
ssb.setSpan(
    StrikethroughSpan(),
    13, // start of the span (inclusive)
    24, // end of the span (exclusive)
    Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE
)
tv.text = ssb

When you run it, it comes out like this:

tv.text = ssb.toString()

draw line through text in textview

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