Can underline words in TextView text

Question

Is there possibility in android to provide TextView some text in Java code with setText(text) function with basic tags like and to make marked words underlined ?

Answer 1

You can use UnderlineSpan from SpannableString class:

SpannableString content = new SpannableString();
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0);

Then just use textView.setText(content);