Format TextView to look like link

Question

I\'ve been using the android:autoLink just fine for formatting links and such, but I need to use android:onClick so I can\'t use that in this case.

Answer 1

Simply underline it:

val myText = "Text to be underlined"
textView.text = Html.fromHtml("<u>$myText</u>")

or with kotlin extensions:

fun TextView.underline() {
    text = Html.fromHtml("<u>${text}</u>")
}

usage:

textView.text = myText
textView.underline()

More ways to style text in android here: https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/spantastic-text-styling-with-spans-17b0c16b4568