How to set the font style to bold, italic and underlined in an Android TextView?

Question

I want to make a TextView\'s content bold, italic and underlined. I tried the following code and it works, but doesn\'t underline.

Answer 1

This should make your TextView bold, underlined and italic at the same time.

strings.xml

    Copyright

To set this String to your TextView, do this in your main.xml

or In JAVA,

TextView textView = new TextView(this);
textView.setText(R.string.register);

Sometimes the above approach will not be helpful when you might have to use Dynamic Text. So in that case SpannableString comes into action.

String tempString="Copyright";
TextView text=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.text);
SpannableString spanString = new SpannableString(tempString);
spanString.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, spanString.length(), 0);
spanString.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), 0, spanString.length(), 0);
spanString.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.ITALIC), 0, spanString.length(), 0);
text.setText(spanString);

OUTPUT