Remove underline from links in TextView - Android

android, hyperlink, textview, underline

Solution

You can do it in code by finding and replacing the `URLSpan` instances with versions that don't underline. After you call `Linkify.addLinks()`, call the function `stripUnderlines()` pasted below on each of your `TextView`s:

    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);
    }

This requires a customized version of URLSpan which doesn't enable the TextPaint's "underline" property:

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

Problem

I am using two `textview` to display links from database, I managed to change link colors but I want to remove the underline ``` email.setText(c.getString(5)); website.setText(c.getString(6)); Linkify.addLinks(email, Linkify.ALL); Linkify.addLinks(website, Linkify.ALL); ``` Can I do that from XML or Code ?

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