Can I underline text in an Android layout?

android, android-layout, fonts

Solution

It can be achieved if you are using a string resource xml file, which supports HTML tags like `<b></b>`, `<i></i>` and `<u></u>`.

<resources>
    <string name="your_string_here"><![CDATA[This is an <u>underline</u>.]]></string>
</resources>

If you want to underline something from code use:

TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textview);
SpannableString content = new SpannableString("Content");
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0);
textView.setText(content);

Problem

How can I define underlined text in an Android layout `xml` file?

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