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

ANURAG RASTOGI's answer saved the day for me! I already have a formatted SpannableString on which I wanted to apply a ClickableSpan:

spannableString.setSpan(new ClickableSpan() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View widget) {
        // Do something...
    }
    // Prevent
    // ds.setColor(ds.linkColor);
    // ds.setUnderlineText(true);
    // in: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/master/core/java/android/text/style/ClickableSpan.java
    // from executing.
    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(@NonNull TextPaint ds) {
        // super.updateDrawState(ds);
    }
},0, spannableString.length(), SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

The updateDrawState overrides the updateDrawState in the ClickableSpan class in Android, and by not calling super.updateDrawState it will not get executed.

All text formatting already present in spannableString will be preserved.