create different color strike through

Question

I am trying to create textview with text color as black and strikthrough as red, I tried to use html but does not seems to work

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Answer 1

late to the party but use a layer-list and place it on top of the textview background. works perfectly. Let me show you.

create in the drawables folder a file called strikethru.xml:

then in your textview do this:

the padding right of 3dp makes the strike through come out more from the text to give a real world effect.