Question

I have the following TextView:

<TextView android:id="@+id/theFooBar"
          android:autoLink="web"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:text="@string/fooBar"
          android:textColor="@android:color/black"
          android:textSize="20sp"/>

And the string:

<string name="fooBar">Foo <u>bar</u>.</string>

This gives my black, underlined text. What if I want blue, non-underlined text for the link (the “bar” part), but I want the rest (the “foo” part) to be black? How could I achieve that?

Answer 1

I recommended you to use WebView instead of TextView in this situation:

WebView web = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.theFooBar);
String str = "<font color='blue'>bar</font><font color='black'><u>foo</u></font>";
web.setBackgroundColor(0);
// It will sets the background color from white to transparent. 
web.loadData(str, "text/html", "utf8");