How to get rid of the underline in a Spannable String with a Clickable Object?

Question

I have a Spannable Object with a Clickable Object set to it. When the Spannable String is displayed in the TextView it has bl

Answer 1

This works for me. No need to create custom ClickableSpan class. Just override updateDrawState(TextPaint ds).

SpannableString span = new SpannableString("Some text");
ClickableSpan clickSpan = new ClickableSpan() {
    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {
        ds.setColor(ds.linkColor);    // you can use custom color
        ds.setUnderlineText(false);    // this remove the underline
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View textView) {
        // handle click event
    }
};

span.setSpan(clickSpan, 5, span.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
yourTextView.setText(span);