Android: Strike-through a TextView

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There are many scenarios in which we need to show a Strike-through text to an android user like Old prices, old offers, etc. But android doesn’t give any such option via XML file. If you want to show a strike-through text you can do it programming using PaintFlags. You can set paint flags Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG to a TextView and it will add a strike-through to the text.

But when you need it in your XML. As I am using Data Binding so my priority is to set everything related to a view in the xml. So I found this workaround on stackoverflow for my problem.

We just have to set a background that contains a line to our TextView like I did.

and the drawable for the strike-through line

and you will get the text as you want.

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We've bought a Shopware Extension which is a hybrid App, which we can now offer in the Google Play Store and the IOS App Store. I'am still impressed how fast and how sharp the support team leads us through every process of the App-Store clarification. Very fast and useful response.

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