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UnderlineSpan

public class UnderlineSpan
extends CharacterStyle implements UpdateAppearance, ParcelableSpan

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.text.style.CharacterStyle
     ↳ android.text.style.UnderlineSpan


A span that underlines the text it's attached to.

The span can be used like this:

SpannableString string = new SpannableString("Text with underline span");
string.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 10, 19, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
Underlined text.

Summary

Inherited constants

Public constructors

UnderlineSpan()

Creates an UnderlineSpan.

UnderlineSpan(Parcel src)

Creates an UnderlineSpan from a parcel.

Public methods

int describeContents()

Describe the kinds of special objects contained in this Parcelable instance's marshaled representation.

int getSpanTypeId()

Return a special type identifier for this span class.

void updateDrawState(TextPaint ds)

void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags)

Flatten this object in to a Parcel.

Inherited methods

Public constructors

UnderlineSpan

public UnderlineSpan ()

Creates an UnderlineSpan.

UnderlineSpan

public UnderlineSpan (Parcel src)

Creates an UnderlineSpan from a parcel.

Parameters
src Parcel: This value cannot be null.

Public methods

describeContents

public int describeContents ()

Describe the kinds of special objects contained in this Parcelable instance's marshaled representation. For example, if the object will include a file descriptor in the output of writeToParcel(android.os.Parcel, int), the return value of this method must include the CONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR bit.

Returns
int a bitmask indicating the set of special object types marshaled by this Parcelable object instance. Value is either 0 or CONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR

getSpanTypeId

public int getSpanTypeId ()

Return a special type identifier for this span class.

Returns
int

updateDrawState

public void updateDrawState (TextPaint ds)

Parameters
ds TextPaint: This value cannot be null.

writeToParcel

public void writeToParcel (Parcel dest, 
                int flags)

Flatten this object in to a Parcel.

Parameters
dest Parcel: This value cannot be null.

flags int: Additional flags about how the object should be written. May be 0 or Parcelable.PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE. Value is either 0 or a combination of Parcelable.PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE, and android.os.Parcelable.PARCELABLE_ELIDE_DUPLICATES