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);

Answer 2

I don't think you should use the "for loop" to draw line.set setStrokeWidth($diameter) maybe useful. I have write a simple view supporting this function,detail Here

Answer 3

The method setPathEffect is not supported by hardware acceleration. By default it is turned on (I think since Android 4.0)

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html#unsupported

You can turn off hardware acceleration inside the constructor with following code snippet:

setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);

Answer 4

new float[]{5,5,5,5}

try

new float[]{5,10,15,20}