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

For bold and italic whatever you are doing is correct for underscore use following code

HelloAndroid.java

 package com.example.helloandroid;

 import android.app.Activity;
 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.text.SpannableString;
 import android.text.style.UnderlineSpan;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class HelloAndroid extends Activity {
TextView textview;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    textview = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textview);
    SpannableString content = new SpannableString(getText(R.string.hello));
    content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0);
    textview.setText(content);
}
}

main.xml

string.xml

 
  Hello World, HelloAndroid!
  Hello, Android