How to set the font style to bold, italic and underlined in an Android TextView?

Sunday, 4 June 2017

I want to make a TextView's content bold, italic and underlined. I tried the following code and it works, but doesn't underline.

How do I do it? Any quick ideas?

Answer

I don't know about underline, but for bold and italic there is "bolditalic". There is no mention of underline here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:textStyle

Mind you that to use the mentioned bolditalic you need to, and I quote from that page

Must be one or more (separated by '|') of the following constant values.

so you'd use bold|italic

You could check this question for underline: Can I underline text in an android layout?

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