Is there an easy way to strike through text in an app widget

Question

I was wondering if there is an easy way to strike text within an app widget in Android  In a normal activity  it is pretty easy  using textview flags   textView setPaintFlags textView getPaintFlags     Paint STRIKE THRU TEXT FLAG     But since in an app widget  I can use only remoteviews    I do not know if this is possible  Anyone know something about this   Thanks

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Here is an extension for all you Kotlin folks

fun TextView.showStrikeThrough(show: Boolean) {
    paintFlags =
            if (show) paintFlags or Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG
            else paintFlags and Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG.inv()
}

Usage

textView.showStrikeThrough(true)

Limitation

Strikethroughs can only be the same color as the text

(i.e. Red text and blue strikethrough is not possible)

User · Answer

try this code  textview setText  Html fromHtml   lt strike gt hello world  lt  strike gt

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Add the line below -  TextView tv  TextView  v findViewById android R id text1   tv setPaintFlags tv getPaintFlags     Paint STRIKE THRU TEXT FLAG     use your reference instead of  tv

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Android resources have pretty good HTML markup support The below HTML elements are supported   Bold   lt b gt    lt em gt  Italic   lt i gt    lt cite gt    lt dfn gt  25  larger text   lt big gt  20  smaller text   lt small gt  Setting font properties   lt font face    font family    color    hex color    gt   Examples of possible font families include monospace  serif  and sans serif  Setting a monospace font family   lt tt gt  Strikethrough   lt s gt    lt strike gt    lt del gt  Underline   lt u gt  Superscript   lt sup gt  Subscript   lt sub gt  Bullet points   lt ul gt    lt li gt  Line breaks   lt br gt  Division   lt div gt  CSS style   lt span style    color background color text-decoration    gt  Paragraphs   lt p dir    rtl   ltr    style           gt    Note however that it s not rendered in android studio layouts preview  Last tested on Android Studio 3 3 1  For example  the Strikethrough will look like that    lt string name  cost  gt  lt strike gt  10 lt  strike gt   5 a month lt  string gt

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I know  I am answering an old question  it might be helpful for someone else  for striking out a particular portion of TextView programmatically   TextView textView    TextView  findViewById R id textView   textView setText  Text need to be set here   TextView BufferType SPANNABLE   Spannable spannable    Spannable  textView getText    spannable setSpan new StrikethroughSpan    5  8  Spanned SPAN INCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE     So  in this example code  5 is starting position and 8 is ending position of text need to be stricken out  so after running this code we can get the text  need  with striked out  Hope it will helpful for someone else

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If you have a single word we can use drawable  Following is the example      lt item android state pressed  false  gt  lt shape android shape  line  gt           lt stroke android width  2dp  android color   ffffff    gt       lt  shape gt   lt  item gt     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

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Make a drawable file  striking text xml  lt  xml version  quot 1 0 quot  encoding  quot utf-8 quot   gt   lt selector xmlns android  quot http   schemas android com apk res android quot  gt       lt item android state pressed  quot false quot  gt           lt shape android shape  quot line quot  gt               lt stroke android width  quot 1dp quot  android color  quot  android color holo red dark quot    gt           lt  shape gt       lt  item gt   lt  selector gt   layout xml   lt TextView                                               android background  quot  drawable striking text quot              android foreground  quot  drawable striking text quot              android text  quot 69  quot               gt   If your min SDK below API level 23 just use the background or just put the background and foreground in the Textview then the android studio will show an error that says create a layout file for API  gt 23 after that remove the  android foreground  quot  drawable stricking text quot  from the main layout Output look like this

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You can use this   remoteviews setInt R id YourTextView   setPaintFlags   Paint STRIKE THRU TEXT FLAG   Paint ANTI ALIAS FLAG     Of course you can also add other flags from the android graphics Paint class

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I tried few options but  this works best for me   String text     lt strike gt  lt font color    757575   gt Some text lt  font gt  lt  strike gt    textview setText Html fromHtml text      cheers

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Another way to do it programmatically which looks a bit less like a hack than the Paint way   Instead of doing   tv setText s     do   private static final StrikethroughSpan STRIKE THROUGH SPAN   new StrikethroughSpan        tv setText s  TextView BufferType SPANNABLE   Spannable spannable    Spannable  tv getText    spannable setSpan STRIKE THROUGH SPAN  0  s length    Spanned SPAN EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE

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For multiline TextView you should use android text style CharacterStyle like this   SpannableString spannable   new SpannableString text   spannable setSpan new StrikethroughSpan    0  text length    Spanned SPAN INCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE   remoteViews setTextViewText R id itemText  spannable

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For Lollipop and above  create a drawable   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt selector xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt       lt item android state pressed  false  gt           lt shape android shape  line  gt               lt stroke android width  1dp                  android color   color onePlusRed    gt           lt  shape gt       lt  item gt   lt  selector gt    and use it as foreground  android foreground   drawable strike through

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For doing this you can use this    title setPaintFlags title getPaintFlags     Paint STRIKE THRU TEXT FLAG     and for remove you can use this                                                                title setPaintFlags title getPaintFlags    amp    Paint STRIKE THRU TEXT FLAG

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2015 Update  Folks  this is for very old versions of Android  See other answers for modern solutions     To strike through the entire text view  you can use a specific background image to simulate the strikethrough effect   android background   drawable bg strikethrough    Where the bg strikethrough drawable is a 9-patch that keeps a solid line through the middle  growing either side  with however much padding you think is reasonable  I ve used one like this          enlarged for clarity   1300            That is my HDPI version  so save it  the first one http   i stack imgur com nt6BK png   as res drawable-hdpi bg strikethrough 9 png and the configuration will work as so

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I ve done this on a regular  local  TextView  and it should work on the remote variety since the docs list the method as equivalent between the two   remote text view setText Html fromHtml  This is  lt del gt crossed off lt  del gt

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It is really easy if you are using strings    lt string name  line  gt  Not crossed  lt strike gt  crossed  lt  strike gt   lt  string gt    And then just    lt TextView                       android text   string line     gt

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To do it programatically in a textview  untested in other views     TextView tv    TextView  findViewById R id mytext   tv setText  This is strike-thru    tv setPaintFlags tv getPaintFlags     Paint STRIKE THRU TEXT FLAG

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you add in     TextView variableTv    TextView  findViewById R id yourText     you set add in You variable    variableTv setText  It s Text use Style Strike      and then add  setPaintFlags in variableTv    variableTv setPaintFlags variableTv getPaintFlags     Paint STRIKE THRU TEXT FLAG

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