android, how to draw dotted line in edittext

Question

I refered to this link: How do I make a dotted/dashed line in Android?, and used DashPathEffect. But this does not work for me? why? my code:

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Answer 1

This should work.

EditText editText=(EditText) v.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);

editText.setPaintFlags(editText.getPaintFlags() | Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG);