How to change the color of underline in android

Question

I am trying to change the color of underline in textView,I came across the link

How to get UnderlineSpan with another color in Android?

But if i tried to implement that,I am not getting color

This is my code

String middleStringText = MyTextView.getText().toString();
Spannable spannable1 = new SpannableString(middleStringText);
CustomUnderLineSpan underLineSpan = new CustomUnderLineSpan(Color.YELLOW,2, 5);
spannable1.setSpan(underLineSpan, 0, 10, spannable1.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
MyTextView.setText(spannable1, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

Have anyone tried similar sort of implementation?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 09 '17 at 19:04

It is not correct Solution,But it is useful for time being purpose,which i got from some link in stack over flow.

spannable1.setSpan(new ColoredUnderlineSpan(Color.YELLOW), middleStringText.indexOf(startText), middleStringText.indexOf(EndText) + value.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);


final class ColoredUnderlineSpan extends CharacterStyle
        implements UpdateAppearance {
    private final int mColor;

    public ColoredUnderlineSpan(final int color) {
        mColor = color;
    }

    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(final TextPaint tp) {
        try {
            final Method method = TextPaint.class.getMethod("setUnderlineText",
                    Integer.TYPE,
                    Float.TYPE);
            method.invoke(tp, mColor, 8.0f);
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            tp.setUnderlineText(true);
        }
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '16 at 15:40

0

What you can do is to create a new paint color and then assign that color to the textview.

Paint p = new Paint();
p.setColor(Color.RED);

TextView myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
myTextView .setPaintFlags(p.getColor());
myTextView .setPaintFlags(Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG);
myTextView .setText("Underline Text with red color.");

answered Jan 05 '16 at 15:40

Kristo

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I want it to do it only for certain words of line,,not for entire line – Rakesh Jan 06 '16 at 02:20

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 07 '17 at 08:07

Check This

        Paint p = new Paint();
        p.setColor(Color.RED);

        TextView t = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
        t.setPaintFlags(p.getColor());
        t.setPaintFlags(Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG);
        t.setText("Hello World");

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 10 '17 at 08:29

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String Text = "<u><font color='blue'>Underline Text</font></u>.";
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(Text), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

edited Feb 10 '17 at 08:29

Fruchtzwerg

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answered Feb 09 '17 at 19:04

Muhammad

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and where is the color? – Leos Literak Feb 10 '17 at 05:51

How to change the color of underline in android

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