How to make text underline and remove text at the same time

Question

I have a text in which there is indicator tag that indicate from where i will make text underline, I want to make text underline from that indicator also want to remove indicator so that it wont appear in string, here is what I'm trying:

  String consent = "By clicking this, you confirm you understand the services provided by your Health at Hand doctor and give <clickable>consent</clickable> to proceed.";
    int i1 = consent.indexOf(">");
    int i2 = consent.indexOf("</");
    consentCheck.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

    consentCheck.setText(consent, CheckBox.BufferType.SPANNABLE);

    consent = consent.replace("</clickable>", "");
    consent = consent.replace("<clickable>", "");

    Spannable mySpannable = (Spannable)consentCheck.getText();
    mySpannable.setSpan(clickableSpan, i1+1, i2 , Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);

Michał Witanowski · Answer 1 · 2018-03-01T07:53:40.187

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If you want to display the text in TextView you could replace "clickable" tags with "u" tags and then use Html.fromHtml() in setText:

String consent = "By clicking this, you confirm you understand the services provided by your Health at Hand doctor and give <clickable>consent</clickable> to proceed.";
consent = consent.replace("<clickable>", "<u>").replace("</clickable>", "</u>");
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
    tvConsent.setText(Html.fromHtml(consent, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY));
} else {
    tvConsent.setText(Html.fromHtml(consent));
}

EDIT:

If u want to edit "consent" part freely you could split the text into three parts and then edit each part independently

String consent = "By clicking this, you confirm you understand the services provided by your Health at Hand doctor and give <clickable>consent</clickable> to proceed.";
String start = "<clickable>";
String end = "</clickable>";
String part1 = consent.substring(0, consent.indexOf(start));
String part2 = consent.substring(consent.indexOf(start)+start.length(),consent.indexOf(end));
String part3 = consent.substring(consent.indexOf(end), consent.length()).replace(end, "");

edited Mar 01 '18 at 07:53

answered Feb 28 '18 at 10:54

Michał Witanowski

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If we want to remove from split and want to use spanable? – blackHawk Feb 28 '18 at 10:57
how about splitting string with and make part of it spannable like s[0]? – blackHawk Feb 28 '18 at 11:17
your answer is good i tried it worked but how about if i dont want text to be under line and change color, like trying to apply styles? – blackHawk Mar 01 '18 at 05:48
You could split the string first and then edit each part independently. I updated my answer. – Michał Witanowski Mar 01 '18 at 08:04
yes I splited and spanned the middle part and then concatenated all the parts, its not working – blackHawk Mar 01 '18 at 08:48

How to make text underline and remove text at the same time

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