How to set underline text on textview?

Question

How to set underline text on textview?

I have used following code but it is not working.

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Answer 1

Android supports string formatting using HTML tags in the strings xml. So the following would work:

This text has an underscore

Then you just use it as you normally would. You can see more in the documentation here

Update:

To further expand on the answer, the documentation says:

... the format(String, Object...) and getString(int, Object...) methods strip all the style information from the string. . The work-around to this is to write the HTML tags with escaped entities, which are then recovered with fromHtml(String), after the formatting takes place

For example, the resulting string from the following code snippet will not show up as containing underscored elements:

This %1$s has an underscore
String result = getString(R.string.html_bold_test, "text")

However the result from the following snippet would contain underscores:

This <u> %1$s </u> has an underscore
String result = Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.html_bold_test, "text"))