Android widget - How to remove text strike through from remote view

Question

How to remove text strike through from remote view.

Here is my code, but it is not working --

To add strike through text(working) -

views.setInt(R.id.widgetTitle, "setPaintFlags", Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG | Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);

To remove strike through text (not working)-

views.setInt(R.id.widgetTitle, "setPaintFlags", Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG & (~Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG));

Full code -

            if (item.isCheck()) {
                views.setTextColor(R.id.widgetTitle, Color.WHITE);
                views.setInt(R.id.widgetTitle, "setPaintFlags", Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG | Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
            } else {
                views.setTextColor(R.id.widgetTitle, Color.WHITE);
                views.setInt(R.id.widgetTitle, "setPaintFlags", Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG & (~Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG));
            }

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 10 '18 at 20:34

You don't need to "unstrikethrough" the TextView, it is sufficient to simply set the Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG if you want normal text (that's because setPaintFlags() does not add the new and the previous flags, it just sets the new flags):

if (item.isCheck()) {
            views.setTextColor(R.id.widgetTitle, Color.WHITE);
            views.setInt(R.id.widgetTitle, "setPaintFlags",
                         Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG | Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
        } else {
            views.setTextColor(R.id.widgetTitle, Color.WHITE);
            views.setInt(R.id.widgetTitle, "setPaintFlags", Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
        }

If you want to preserve more than one flag which was previously set while removing the strikethrough effect, I'd like to point you to this post by edwoolard

Android widget - How to remove text strike through from remote view

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