Creating a strikethrough text?

If you are using Kotlin:

your_text_view.apply {paintFlags = paintFlags or Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAGtext = "Striked thru text"}

It is really easy if you are using strings:

<string name="line"> Not crossed <strike> crossed </strike> </string>

And then just:

<TextView ...android:text="@string/line"/>

You can do this in three ways, by either setting foreground in TextView or setting PaintFlag or declaring a string as <strike>your_string</strike> in strings.xml. For example,

Through PaintFlag

This is the simplest method you just have to set strikethrough flag on your TextView as,

yourTextView.setPaintFlags(Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG);

it will strike through your TextView.

Through foreground drawable(Works only for API 23+)

If your minSdkVersion is API version 23 +, then you can strike through your TextView by setting a foreground as,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"><item android:state_pressed="false"><shape android:shape="line"><stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="@android:color/holo_red_dark"/></shape></item></selector>

Now, you just have to set above drawable in your TextView as foreground. For example,

<TextViewandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="Your Textview with StrikeThrough"android:foreground="@drawable/strikethrough_foreground" /> <!-- this is available above --!>

Through strings.xml

In this method, you have to declare your string in strings.xml as strike through as,

<string name="strike_line"> <strike>This line is strike throughed</strike></string>

Note

But I recommend you to strike through your TextView by setting foreground drawable. Because through drawable you can easily set your strike-through line color(as like I set as red color in above example) or size or any other style property. While in the other two methods default text color is strikethrough color.

try this :

richTextView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.rich_text); // this is the text we'll be operating on SpannableString text = new SpannableString("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"); text.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 0, 5, 0); // make "ipsum" (characters 6 to 11) one and a half time bigger than the textbox text.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(1.5f), 6, 11, 0); // make "dolor" (characters 12 to 17) display a toast message when touched final Context context = this; ClickableSpan clickableSpan = new ClickableSpan() { @Override public void onClick(View view) { Toast.makeText(context, "dolor", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } }; text.setSpan(clickableSpan, 12, 17, 0); // make "sit" (characters 18 to 21) struck through text.setSpan(new StrikethroughSpan(), 18, 21, 0); // make "amet" (characters 22 to 26) twice as big, green and a link to this site. // it's important to set the color after the URLSpan or the standard // link color will override it. text.setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(2f), 22, 26, 0); text.setSpan(new URLSpan("http://www.djsad.com"), 22, 26, 0); text.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.GREEN), 22, 26, 0); // make our ClickableSpans and URLSpans work richTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); // shove our styled text into the TextView richTextView.setText(text, BufferType.SPANNABLE); 

I am just copying my answer. Hope it will help for someoneIf you have a single word we can use drawable.Following is the example:

<item android:state_pressed="false"><shape android:shape="line"><stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="#ffffff" /></shape></item>

if you have multiple lines you can use the following code:

TextView someTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.some_text_view);someTextView.setText(someString);someTextView.setPaintFlags(someTextView.getPaintFlags() | Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG)

In Kotlin you can create extension property:

inline var TextView.strike: Booleanset(visible) {paintFlags = if (visible) paintFlags or Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAGelse paintFlags and Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG.inv()}get() = paintFlags and Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG == Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG

And use:

textView.strike = true

This fits nicely into databinding:

@BindingAdapter("strikethrough")@JvmStaticfun strikethrough(view: TextView, show: Boolean) {view.paintFlags = if (show) {view.paintFlags or STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG} else {view.paintFlags and Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG.inv()}}

Then in your xml:

 <TextViewandroid:id="@+id/line_item_name"android:textAppearance="?attr/textAppearanceBody2"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="Club sandwich with ranch dressing"app:strikethrough="@{viewModel.isItemChecked}"/>

Just use this and you are done .For Activity :

TextView t= (TextView).findViewById(R.id.thousand));t.setPaintFlags(t.getPaintFlags() | Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG);

For Xml :

<RelativeLayoutandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/text_view_original_cash_amount"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:padding="5dp"android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"android:text="Rs. 1,999"/><Viewandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="1dp"android:background="@android:color/darker_gray"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:layout_alignStart="@id/text_view_original_cash_amount"android:layout_alignEnd="@id/text_view_original_cash_amount"android:layout_alignLeft="@id/text_view_original_cash_amount"android:layout_alignRight="@id/text_view_original_cash_amount" /> </RelativeLayout>

In kotlin:

to do:

textView.paintFlags= textView.paintFlags or Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG

to undo:

textView.paintFlags= textView.paintFlags and Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG.inv()

As suggested by alejandro-h-cruz, this is the Kotlin extension function to help doing so.

 private fun TextView.strikeThrough(shouldStrike: Boolean) {paintFlags = if (shouldStrike) {paintFlags or Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG} else {paintFlags and Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG.inv()}}

I tried few options above but, this works best for me:

String text = "<strike><font color=\'#757575\'>Some text</font></strike>";textview.setText(Html.fromHtml(text));

cheers

There's another way to change the STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG bit.

It's by getting the Paint object associated to the TextView and using the setStrikeThruText function like this:

textView.getPaint().setStrikeThruText(/* boolean expression */);

Documentation says about it:

Helper for setFlags(), setting or clearing the STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG bit

There are functions for setting, clearing or reading other bits too.

In your observable view model

fun getStrikeContent(): String {return "Hello"}companion object {@BindingAdapter("strike")@JvmStaticfun loadOldPrice(view: TextView, value: String) {view.text = valueview.paintFlags = STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG}}

then in your xml

 <TextViewandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"app:strike="@{itemViewModel.strikeContent}" />