How to highlight text like Android spell-checker?

Question

How do underline text in Android text fields, like the spell-checker does in this screen shot:

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Thanks in advance!

have you got output for this? If you got please share your code. — Nirmal, Sep 20 '13 at 05:59

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '13 at 21:21

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You use Spannables. Spannables are character sequences that incorporate style. For this, use an UnderlineSpan

answered Jan 25 '13 at 21:21

Gabe Sechan

Thank you! Do you know how to change the underline color? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14533142/how-to-set-color-of-underlinespan – Barry Fruitman Jan 26 '13 at 02:14
Wrap it in a ForegroundColorSpan. Or it might be a BackgroundColorSpan, but its one of the two. – Gabe Sechan Jan 26 '13 at 03:17
Wrap it? I don't understand. How do I apply two spans (UnderlineSpan and ForegroundColorSpan) to the same Spannable? – Barry Fruitman Jan 26 '13 at 03:59
A Spannable can hold another Spannable. – Gabe Sechan Jan 26 '13 at 04:19
Using ForegroundColorSpan applies the color to the text and underline. I want to only apply it to the underline, like in the screen cap above. – Barry Fruitman Jan 26 '13 at 04:28

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