remove underline from clickable email in textview

Question

I am working on an android app in which I have put a mail in a text in textView and it is clickable. I want to remove the underline from the mail. How to do it?

 <TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="@dimen/mailnlink"
    android:textColor="@color/mltext"
    android:textColorLink="@color/link"
    android:textStyle="italic"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:autoLink="email"
    android:background="@color/mlb"
    android:text="@string/f2"/>

can you share the images what you want and what are u getting right now? — Deepak Rana, Aug 08 '17 at 11:40

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 09 '17 at 13:28

This worked for me: I added autolink in the xml or you can also use linkify in code.

 <TextView
    android:id="@+id/mail"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="@dimen/mailnlink"
    android:textColor="@color/mltext"
    android:textColorLink="@color/link"
    android:textStyle="italic"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:background="@color/mlb"
    android:autoLink="email"
    android:text="@string/f2"
    />

In the java file:

TextView mtextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mail);

    Spannable sa = (Spannable)mtextView.getText();
    for (URLSpan u: sa.getSpans(0, sa.length(), URLSpan.class)) {
        sa.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan() {
            public void updateDrawState(TextPaint tp) {
                tp.setUnderlineText(false);
            }
        }, sa.getSpanStart(u), sa.getSpanEnd(u), 0);
    }ere

James · Answer 2 · 2022-06-24T18:49:12.660

Here's a Kotlin extension function as a solution to remove all UrlSpan underlines:

private fun Spannable.removeAllUrlSpanUnderline() {
    for (urlSpan in getSpans(0, length, URLSpan::class.java)) {
        setSpan(object : UnderlineSpan() {
            override fun updateDrawState(tp: TextPaint) {
                tp.isUnderlineText = false
            }
        }, getSpanStart(urlSpan), getSpanEnd(urlSpan), 0)
    }
}

In my case, I began with a string with href tags. fromHtml returns a Spanned so cast it to a Spannable so it's mutable. See the sample use below:

val sampleHtmlString = "<a href=\"www.google.com\">first Link</a> and <a href=\"www.google.com\">second link</a>"

val sampleSpannable = HtmlCompat.fromHtml(sampleHtmlString, HtmlCompat.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY) as Spannable

sampleSpannable.removeAllUrlSpanUnderline()

Now you're free to set sampleSpannable to your TextView

You cant set sampleSpannableWithoutUnderlines to yout TextView because the function does not return anything. Instead you just set the sampleSpannable and it works! — Dantalian, Jun 24 '22 at 14:03
@Dantalian you're right, not sure what i was doing there. Anyway, I updated the answer — James, Jun 24 '22 at 18:49

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 11:42

Here is how

private void stripUnderlines(TextView textView) {
        Spannable s = new SpannableString(textView.getText());
        URLSpan[] spans = s.getSpans(0, s.length(), URLSpan.class);
        for (URLSpan span: spans) {
            int start = s.getSpanStart(span);
            int end = s.getSpanEnd(span);
            s.removeSpan(span);
            span = new URLSpanNoUnderline(span.getURL());
            s.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);
        }
        textView.setText(s);
    }

 private class URLSpanNoUnderline extends URLSpan {
        public URLSpanNoUnderline(String url) {
            super(url);
        }
        @Override public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
            super.updateDrawState(ds);
            ds.setUnderlineText(false);
        }
    }

Remove underline from links in TextView - Android

How will you get the text for the textview here? – Gurjeet Singh Aug 08 '17 at 12:21 — Gurjeet Singh, Aug 08 '17 at 12:21
`textView.getText()` ? – Abhishek Bansal Aug 08 '17 at 12:44 — Abhishek Bansal, Aug 08 '17 at 12:44

score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 12:41

You can simply add clickable to textView

<TextView
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:textSize="@dimen/mailnlink"
   android:textColor="@color/mltext"
   android:textColorLink="@color/link"
   android:textStyle="italic"
   android:gravity="center"
   android:clickable="true"      
   android:background="@color/mlb"
   android:text="@string/f2"/>

remove underline from clickable email in textview

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