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

Override updateDrawState method of ClickableSpan class

String mystring =" Hello";
SpannableString ss= new SpannableString(mystring);
ss.setSpan(new MyClickableSpan(mystring), 0, ss.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);  

class MyClickableSpan extends ClickableSpan{// extend ClickableSpan     

String clicked;
public MyClickableSpan(String string) {
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
super();
clicked =string;
}

public void onClick(View tv) {

   Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,clicked ,
        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

public void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds) {// override updateDrawState
   ds.setUnderlineText(false); // set to false to remove underline
}

For changing color of spannable String

  SpannableString    ss = new SpannableString("android Stack Overflow");

  ForegroundColorSpan fcs=newForegroundColorSpan(Color.parseColor("#01579B"));
  ss.setSpan(fcs, 8,13, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);